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We've just arrived in Sydney after an exciting and productive month in California, teaching our method to health professionals at California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles, and presenting a mini Uplift Program for the public and health professionals at the cutting-edge California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.

California has always been a fertile ground for disseminating new ideas and, as always, we feel really at home there, and look forward to our return. We made new alliances (with the world-renowned Esalen Istitute) and cemented old ones, such as with the San Francisco-based Association for Humanistic Psychology and Health Medicine Forum.

We were recharged as we walked the hills around LA, marveling at the exuberant wildflowers taller than our heads and the pungent tar pits that came off the shale hills. We thrilled at the constantly changing vistas of the World Heritage drive from LA to SF and greeted the resident seals in Monterey's harbor and the myriad of waterfowl (often trailing a line of newly-hatched offspring) that take up residency at South San Francisco's harbor side by our hotel.

It's odd to go instantly from the California spring, that season of expectancy, with its new foliage, enticing scents and unseasonal chill, to Australia's fall, with its surprise pockets of summer heat, sense of harvest and work fulfillment, and at the same time preparation for the integration and deepening that even Sydney's mild winter, invites. As we finish the manuscript of our latest book, "Creating Optimism in Your Young Child," and plan for the next, there is a profound sense of deepening and expectancy.

We thank you all for being with us on our ongoing journey.

Upcoming Events

Book now for our June workshop and seminar in Sydney:

• Creating Optimism Seminar: Sydney (Jun 3)
• 2 1/2 day Uplift Intensive: Sydney (Jun 17-19)

Check our event schedule.

Articles and Press Releases

Fact-sheet: What Is Childhood Trauma?
Childhood trauma and child abuse can include physical, verbal and sexual abuse, but also criticism, threat of punishment and witnessing domestic, community and TV violence, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Press Release: Activating Brain's Safety Circuit Can Buffer Against Stress and Trauma
Good relationships activate a neural safety circuit and buffer against stress and anxiety.

Health and Wellness News Stories

• Obesity and Depression
  High-fat foods and lack of exercise are not as important a predictor of obesity as depression, poor body image and parental influence.
• Vulnerabilities Keep Women in Abusive Relationships
  But knowing why helps victims become less vulnerable to abusers.
• Humor Heightens Hope
  Laughter is the best medicine for coping with stress and boosting long-term resilience and self-esteem.
• Light Up Your Life!
  It's not just SAD sufferers who get sad in the dark.
• Better Care for the Elderly
  Loneliness and depression seldom addressed in retirement communities.
• More Evidence for the Benefits of Spirituality
  Spirituality, religious practice improves health and may slow progression of Alzheimer's disease.
• Ideals of Physical Beauty Harm Kids
  Researchers show parents give unattractive children less attention.

Warm wishes,

Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry
UPLIFT PROGRAM FOUNDERS

PS. See you soon at an Uplift Program workshop or seminar. Check our event schedule.

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