My skin care recommendation this week is the Algenist Collagen skin care kit.  It comes with a bottle of collagen, anti-wrinkle cream and under the eye skin balm.  Now, many of you may be thinking that you are too young for anti-wrinkle care.  Well, I am here to tell you NOT to wait until you "need" it.  If you start using this kit now and continue to use it until you are older, you will thank God you did.  So, never think it is too early or that your are too young to start skin care treatment.

In CBT, there are 4 “P’s” in Case Formulation:

Predisposing factors;

Precipitating factors;

Perpetuating factors; and

Protective factors

They help us understand what might be leading a perceived problem to arise, and what might prevent them from being tackled effectively.

Today we will discuss the presidential debate that took place on Thursday.  I talk about my feelings towards our current president and his performance at the debate.  I talk about the issues we could be dealing with in the near future if the same president is elected and the US Supreme Court Justice nominee is confirmed.

Today my recommendation for makeup is the bareMinerals Primer.  This primer is very light weight and very silky.  What I found when I use this product, the pores on my face diminish.  I have pretty bad pores on my nose and this primer helps to reduce those.  The primer is also great for all the makeup being applied after.  It makes the skin even and allows the colors of what you put on pop a little more.  I would highly recommend you use it.  It can be found on the webpage under the products tab.

The first part of self-esteem is the aspect of self-efficacy which is whether you feel you can make it in the world.  Do you have your own opinions?  Are you the master of your own life?  The second aspect is self-respect.  Self-respect is feeling value, that you deserve happiness and that you deserve happiness.  The six pillars talked about are: Living consciously: The practice of self-acceptance; The practice of self-responsibility; Self assertiveness; Living purposefully; and Integrity.

Welcome to the first Skin Care Tuesday.  We will now be giving quick shout outs to skin care products that I recommend.  This week I am giving a shout out to the Olay Vitamin C Face Mask.  Using scrubs on your face is critical to get all of the dead skin cells off.  The better the quality of the product, the better results are.  I can personally say that this is a great product that makes the skin on your face feel great.  Highly recommend getting it from our website.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-established, effective type of short-term therapy. It’s based on the connections between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and how they can influence each other.

There are quite a few techniques that are used with CBT. Depending on the type of issue you want help with, either you or your therapist will help figure out which CBT strategy is best suited to your particular needs.

We talk about 9 new and different techniques.

Today I talk a little bit about democracy.  I am encouraging you to educate yourself.  With the election coming up and a new Supreme Court justice being appointed, it is critical that you understand the issues that may face us in the near future. The books on the website are books that I would recommend that you purchase and read.  We may be facing a completely different world soon, and you should be as knowledgeable as possible in order to understand the effects this change may have on you.

This week I’d like to begin talking about the self-care planner. This can be downloaded from the website. The planner is designed to help you get to know yourself and begin to understand the values that you have. This is a very nice complementary tool to use with the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT helps you identify problems and gives you suggestions and/or tools to help you resolve these issues. The self-care planner makes everything visual and gives you a place to record certain things.

Today we touch upon re-branding ourselves.  Just as I said before, it is a way of looking at reinventing yourself.  Please keep in mind that today I decided to keep it authentic.  I did not edit the audio.  What you hear is the unadulterated "ME."  Enjoy.