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The lively, bustling holiday season often brings up questions about "how to set healthy boundaries" with family and friends. These questions—and the answers to them—are so important, because solid personal boundaries can create the greatest of holidays. The tips and tools offered below will help you add a lasting glow to your holiday gatherings. As an added benefit, the concepts can also be used to improve interactions with family, friends, and co-workers throughout the year!

You’ve been loving sports for so long, it can be hard to imagine a lasting relationship with someone who doesn’t. But what do you do when your otherwise perfect woman just so happens to have a football sitting in her blind spot? Do you run in the other direction or do you boldly accept the challenge? Here are a few helpful tips:

Compromise is the name of the game. Relationships are all about compromise, and that’s perhaps no more true than when you’re trying to share something you’re really passionate about, like sports.

Throwing your very first dinner party can be intimidating—particularly if any invitees are talented cooks—but a meal in three courses is an excellent and manageable place to begin. (You can graduate to five later.)

Course 1
Cranberry and Bleu Cheese Spinach Salad

Get a big salad bowl and salad tongs. Buy two bags of fresh spinach leaves and toss with roasted honey walnuts, crumbled bleu cheese and dried cranberries. You can buy the walnuts pre-roasted or roast them yourself by tossing honey and sugar-coated raw nuts onto a foiled cookie sheet covered in cooking spray and roasting in a 350F oven for 8 minutes.

Many spiritual teachers and traditions teach about the power of being present in the moment. By cultivating an egoless state, they claim that you can find great joy and happiness in life. The problem is, many teachers don’t explain how to experience egolessness outside of years of contemplative practice. Meditation is an important process of self-actualization, but doesn’t always translate into the everyday world.

While developing a deep, empathic listening skill as part of my work as a peacemaker, I suddenly experienced non-ego for about 15 seconds. It was remarkable because I felt exactly as the teachers said I would.

Very often we allow days, dates, times and seasons to influence how we engage with our lives. This is a reality which crosses the borders of geography, ethnicity, race and culture. We all love the prospect of a new year because of the tremendous sense of hope and possibility which it brings. How then can we harness this sense of renewal to bring fresh direction and focus to our marriage?

This process can begin by choosing a word or idea which we think may best suit where we may want our relationship to go.

Recently the garden lifestyle store Terrain opened a new flagship in Westport, Connecticut and I became a huge fan while discovering many wonderful things for my home and garden.  One feature that took my breath away was the plethora of topless terrariums and, of course, I needed to have one—okay, maybe two.  I adore them and I quickly wanted to learn how I could reproduce the same look in various sizes to give as gifts.

It did not take long before I was making my own version of these portable gardens, and thanks to Terrain’s collection of decorative rocks and plant materials it became easy to do at a fraction of the cost.

Are your packages safe? If your boxes are sitting out in the open on your doorstep, it’s very possible a thief has an eye on your stuff. About 23 million people have said they have had a package stolen from their doorstep, according to a survey from BankRate Inc. and Insurance Quotes.com.

If you’ve been the victim of a doorstep theft, contact the police immediately and get in touch with the merchant customer service team, as well as the delivery company. When submitting your inquiry, be sure to attach any evidence to your message, such as home security video or photo evidence.