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Ever look at photos of yourself as a child and wonder where that person has gone? Make 2010 the year you remove the mask, rekindle your friendship with yourself and become genuinely you.

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Timeout Dubai Kids - April 2009 issue

Snotty noses, sugary food, picked noses, computer games - real mums admit their sloppy parenting secrets

Mums Behaving Badly

Mental Illness Risks

Tuesday 9 Jun, 2009
Fear and anxiety about job security and financial woes is putting people at risk of developing mental health disorders according to top psychologists in the UAE.

Doctors met in Dubai yesterday to discuss how to improve the treatment of patients suffering from mental illness, which experts believe is on the rise as a result of the recession.

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Mental Illness Risks

Life's Clowning Glory

The importance of humour cannot be stressed more. So smile a lot and see yourself sail through hard times...
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Wage a war on rage

By Gaby Doman, Staff Reporter - Gulf News
Published: July 03, 2009, 23:26

Let’s face it — many of us were lured into expat living with the promise of a very spoilt life of sun, sand, sea and tax-free salaries.

Though few complain about that side of UAE life, there can also be a lot of stress attached to living in a foreign country.

Language and cultural barriers, the upheaval of moving home and settling into a new pace of life can all exacerbate our stress levels.

“Expat life can be stressful enough with its cultural differences, administrative red tape, traffic jams, work uncertainty, housing problems and loss of familiar support systems,” explains Helen Williams, a counsellor and parenting educator in Dubai.

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Ten ways to cultivate trust

By Louisa Wilkins
Published: August 02, 2009,

If your relationship was a garden, trust would be the lush grass and foliage that holds it all together.

Louisa Wilkins asks experts for tips on how to grow healthy trust and keep the weeds of distrust at bay.

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Looking on the bright side

Jola Chudy
August 30. 2009
Researchers at two Canadian universities have concluded that people with low self-esteem who follow the advice of some self-help books can actually end up feeling worse.

Most people, at some time in their adult lives, would have hit a low point, at which time they might have sighed and, utterly defeated, said: “At least I have my health.” That may sound like a way of using a sunny outlook to help defeat a dark mood, but a recent Canadian study suggests that trying to think positively – a philosophy which has formed the backbone of the self-help industry – may sometimes make us feel worse.

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