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Our recent workshops at the California Institute of Integral Studies and California State Universisty at Northridge were a great success. And we have been run off our feet with consulting work for leading companies in the US and Australia, which is one of the reasons why you haven't received a newsletter from us recently. This means we have needed to cut right back on workshops, and can no longer offer the Uplift Intensive. We will be continuing to send you important articles and health news stories, albeit more periodically.

Articles and Press

Our new book, Raising an Optimistic Child, has garnered some exciting media coverage recently and we have been featured in leading publications including Time Magazine, Parenting, NY Daily News, Fresno Bee, and Perspective.

Feature Review: Best Intentions
Time Magazine calls Raising an Optimistic Child "a fine blueprint for a noble aim: to send out into the world more children equipped to find the beauty all around them." [pdf]

Book Extract: Take a Walk on the Bright Side
"The secret of a happy, depression-free home does not lie in focusing solely on your child at the expense of yourself and relationships with your partner and close friends, but in creating an environment that nurtures the entire family." Feature excerpt of Raising an Optimistic Child in Australia's favorite parenting magazine, Practical Parenting. [pdf]

Guard Kids Against Depression
Bob and Alicia outline 5 essentials for creating a postive environment for raising optimistic children, in San Fransico's Fresno Bee. [pdf]

Off to Work They Go
Getting a summer job is a great way for tweens and teens to master the passage to adulthood says Bob, in New York's Daily News. [pdf]

On Grandparenting
Bob writes for Southern Californian Senior Life on skip-generational parenting and gives some handy hints for grandparents involved in the valuable and rewarding task of caring for young children.

10 Secrets for Happier Kids
From cutting back on gifts to letting a little rain fall on their parades, here are 10 surprising things you can do to help your kids grow up positive. Bob and Alicia are quoted in Canadian Family.

Purpose as a Therapeutic Tool
Bob and Alicia highlight the healing power of a functional life purpose. Published in Perspective (Journal of the Association for Humanistic Psychology). [pdf]

Health and Wellness News Stories

• Create Your Own Longevity!
  Study finds seniors with low age expectations likelier to lead sedentary lives.
• Liars Have Different Brains
  Cheats and liars have different brains than the rest of us (who, of course, never cheat or lie).
• Epilepsy and Suicide
  Study finds surprising links between depression, suicide, and epilepsy.
• Don't Try to Change My Mind with Facts!
  Humans are not as reasonable as they like to think they are.
• In Childrearing it's the Relationship that Matters
  Parental conflict produces more than fleeting distress for children.
• Unhappy Marriages Detrimental to Self-Esteem and Health
  Long-term, low-quality marriages have significant effects on overall well-being, according to a recent study.
• Alzheimers Hits the Educated Faster
  The rate of mental decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease directly related to their educational level.
• Tyranny Arises From Powerlessness, Not Power
  When people refuse to exercise what power they have tyranny is the inevitable result.
• Stress Sparks Male Foetus Death
  If a mother is under stress boys are less likely to survive until birth.
• Cutting Middle Management Kills Productivity
  One-on-one relationships the key to employee commitment, and relationships the key to productivity.

Warm wishes,

Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry
UPLIFT PROGRAM

PS. Check out our new book Raising an Optimistic Child.

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