My husband Michael and I put together a couple of new vision boards last week.  He’d never done it before, and we had a lot of fun creating our visions, printing beautiful images and words on photographic paper, and then arranging them all artfully on foam core board. Two things happened for me right away [...]

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McGill University and Douglas Institute scientists, in cooperation with the Quebec Suicide Brain Bank, discovered that suicide victims who suffered abuse as children showed DNA modifications that increased their sensitivity to stress. Their brains showed DNA changes that inhibited their ability to take up cortisol, a powerful stress hormone. And that certainly increased their risk [...]

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