Dr. Janet Hall

How do you keep up with this highly competitive and rapidly changing world and manage your stress levels and stay healthy …and look for Mr or Ms Right at the same time? Dr Janet Hall helps you look at how the singles scene rates for stress in terms of the 10 strategies she covers in her keynote presentation entitled "Ten sure-fire strategies for realistic stress reduction, easy stress-management and maximal good health".

Rosie and Peter were juggling full-time careers and bringing up three children. They had been increasingly concerned about tempers fraying and short fuses as a major negative effect on their family. They would start every day with a good intention to be loving, but never seemed to have the time to show their loved ones a warm kindness. A week would go past without anyone feeling especially treated or taken notice of.

According to Barbara D'Angelis, author of the best book I know to finding the ideal partner, "Are You the One For Me", an age difference of more than eleven years is a "time bomb". This means that everything may start out rosy, but sooner or later there is bound to be a blow-up –a major conflict of interest because of the difference in ages.

Learning to be respectful and how to act with responsibility, are fundamental lessons for almost all children. Children are never too young to learn to say please and thank you, to ask before taking, pick up toys and tidy their room, or take care with the possessions of others.

Who has a fight-free family? Whenever I ask this question of my audience everybody looks around the room :all hoping that someone else will admit that most mornings, by the end of breakfast time, their family has fought at least one major battle already. There's big smiles of relief when I tell them the truth about families – all families fight!

You will have your colors analyzed so that you can confidently choose colors that enhance your personal power. You will also be advised how to get the difference that makes the difference in your individual presentation for elegant, business and casual wear. They will also teach you how accessories – your tie, your belt and especially your clean shoes – can make you look shabby or sharp. Some Image Consultants will actually take you shopping and teach you how to choose wisely.

A woman called Jane told how she was badly scarred by boiling water when she was four and required a lot of surgery over many years. There are no photos of her in the family album from the age of four until she was sixteen, until she was clear of all her treatments to her skin to get rid of the scars.

The national survey on sexuality which was reported in the Australian Study of Health and Relationships published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 27, 2, 2003. has a worrying finding. One in twenty Australian men and one in five Australian women reported that they had at some time been forced or frightened into doing something sexually that they did not want to do. Approximately half of these reported that they experienced sexual coercion when aged 16 years or younger.

"Life's for living to the full!" I was listening to Florence Houghton (then aged 83) who had been talking at me for over an hour... and I was hanging off every word. She had recently made a tandem parachute jump (the oldest person to do so in the southern hemisphere) and was looking forward to her next adventure. However she was a bit peeved at the backlash she received as a result of a special television segment on her made by Sixty Minutes.

In an interview on a gay radio program recently the reporter asked his presenting expert why it was important to be monogamous in a relationship. She said that she believed that whether it is a gay or heterosexual partnership, the main reason it is important to be monogamous is that it prevents drama! Of course that's not the only reason, but it's significant.