Conference Dates / Stosny: Toddler Love / Love Copy Cats / Happy Wife Formula - 8/24/10

[Smartmarriages]

- I STILL DON¹T HAVE 2011 CONFERENCE DATES, BUT HOLD JULY 11 ­ 18
- STOSNY, HUGE HIT IN ORLANDO ­ FREE WEBINAR
- I WANT TO GO WHERE YOU GO, DO WHAT YOU DO, EAT WHAT YOU EAT....
- WHO SHALL FIND A HAPPY WIFE?


- I STILL DON¹T HAVE 2011 CONFERENCE DATES, BUT HOLD JULY 11 ­ 18
Does anyone have a big problem with July 11 - 18 dates?  We¹d avoid the
whole July 4th holiday conflict....but I realize it¹s a bit later than
you¹re used to and might have blocked.  Let me know ASAP!! This is NOT firm,
but I¹m working on several possibilities and the deal on these dates is
looking good.  
 - diane 
---------------------------------
- STOSNY, HUGE HIT IN ORLANDO ­ FREE WEBINAR
I just got the preliminary evaluation reports from the Orlando Smart
Marriages Conference and can tell you that Steven Stosny was one of the top
across-the-board favorites.  If you saw him in Orlando, here¹s more.  If you
missed him, here¹s your chance to listen to his free HOW CAN I BE ME WHILE
YOU¹RE BEING YOU? (also known as TODDLER LOVE).  More than 200 of you
participated to the live webinar recorded on Aug 21st that is now available
online on his website: http://compassionpower.com   Just click on the FREE
WEBINAR link.  You¹ll also see a link to his next webinar which will take
place Sunday August 29th, it¹s called, what else but: ADULT LOVE.

You can also download his highly acclaimed sessions from the Smart Marriages
Orlando 2010 Conference  here: http://www.iplaybacksmartmarriages.com/
Or by calling 800-241-7785

750-301 
Love Without Hurt
Steven Stosny, PhD
Learn how to use this approach in marriage education
settings to help overcome entrenched resentment, anger,
verbal and emotional abuse BEFORE you try to teach
communication skills.

750-404
Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It!
Pat Love, EdD, Steven Stosny, PhD
Learn an approach that combines brain research
and a set of brief behaviors guaranteed to strengthen
marriage. Best of all, men can do it without feeling
they have to behave like women.

750-804
Crazy About You: Scorched-Earth Love
Steven Stosny, PhD
Jealousy is a crucial emotional "signal." But when
perverted through blame and control, it can cause
psychosis, misery and divorce. Discover the road
to understanding and healing.

---------------------------------------------------
-  I WANT TO GO WHERE YOU GO, DO WHAT YOU DO, EAT WHAT YOU EAT....
THEN I¹LL BE HAPPY.....
 
Although this is from 2007, I saw it on Marc Payan Twitter and it is great
stuff that I¹m sure you can use with couples. Also sharing it because it
reminds me to thank Sherod Miller not just for his GREAT presentations at
Smart Marriages ­ he got rave reviews for his two-day pre-conference Couples
Training and for both his Sherod¹s Squares and Thrivesphere workshops, but
for also introducing me to Ron and Cathy Tijerina and their Keeping Faith
Program, and also for telling me to read The China Study. Oh my goodness,
what a completely life changing book it is.....I¹ll always remember the day
I bought it, June 9, 2010. He did warn me. - diane
  
Order session download here http://www.iplaybacksmartmarriages.com/

750-205
ThriveSphere 
Sherod Miller, PhD
Learn to facilitate this comprehensive cost-effective,
web-based inventory for premarital and marital fprayer
self/partner/relationship awareness. Part 2 training
online at your convenience.


Spouses follow suit in health
behaviors, study reveals
Yale Bulletin & Calendar, Oct 12, 2007

If one spouse exercises, quits smoking, stops drinking alcohol, receives a
flu shot or undergoes a cholesterol screening, the other spouse is more
likely to do the same, according to a new study in the journal Health
Services Research.

³We found that when one spouse improves his or her health behavior, the
other spouse was likely to do so as well,² says co-author Jody Sindelar,
health economist and public health professor in the Yale School of Public
Health. ³This was consistent across all the behaviors analyzed and was
similar among both males and females.²

 Using longitudinal data on 6,072 individuals and their spouses from the
Health and Retirement Study, the researchers found the changes in spouses¹
health habits were most apparent in such behaviors as smoking and drinking,
which is often spurred by outside cues, and in patient-directed preventive
behavior, such as getting a flu shot.

 For example, smokers were more than five times more likely to quit smoking
if their spouse quit, when controlling for other relevant factors.
Similarly, spouses were five times more likely to quit drinking alcohol if
their partner didn¹t drink. The changes were less apparent in
clinician-directed preventive behavior, such as obtaining cholesterol
screening. 

 Sindelar and co-author Dr. Tracy Falba, visiting assistant professor at
Duke University¹s Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, say health
habits and use of preventive services should be viewed in the context of a
family. They note that attempts to change behavior may be enhanced, or
thwarted, by the behavior of family members, especially spouses. For this
reason, they add, intervention programs should include tips about how to get
the other spouse involved in exercise or help reduce tobacco cues.

 The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National
Institute on Aging. ‹ By Jacqueline Weaver

------------------------------------------
- WHO SHALL FIND A HAPPY WIFE?
Brad Wilcox
August 24, 2010

The happiness or otherwise of women is one of the great sociological themes
of the last five decades and it is not clear how the balance sheet currently
stands. But, for anyone interested in the happiness of married women, a
study of American wives by University of Virginia sociologists Bradford
Wilcox and the late Steven Nock is highly instructive.

Their research, first published in the journal Social Forces under the
heading, ³What¹s Love Got To Do With It? Equality, equity, commitment and
women¹s marital quality², is here summarised by Professor Wilcox as a
resource for women and men interested in learning more about successful
marriages. 

The top predictors of women¹s marital happiness, in order of importance:
http://tinyurl.com/25l6fe7
----------------------------------------

- FOR INFORMATION about how to post to the Smart Marriages® newslist;
subscribe or UNSUBSCRIBE, or an archive of all past posts:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/newslist.info.html


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists101.his.com/pipermail/smartmarriages/attachments/20100824/1283bbbc/attachment.html>