Jeff Schwartz: You Are Not Your Brain on ThirdAge.com

A new book co-authored by Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a research psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine, offers a way to deal with rejection and painful feelings of betrayal. The title of You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life refers to the brain’s neuroplasticity, or ability to be “reprogrammed.”

You Are Not Your Brain calls on us to think about a breakup or another painful emotional situation in a new way.  “We all have in the brain an area that in the book we call the ‘self-reference center,’ which leads us to take social rejection and disappointments personally,” says Schwartz. “When the self-reference center is activated, we feel emotional pain, and even physical pain, in an area of the brain not too far away.”

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Heats Up On Hot Flash Havoc

LCO Client Heidi Houston and her recent film Hot Flash Havoc is on The Orange County Register.

“It was just so instant how much better I felt,” says Houston, who lives in Colorado and is in her 50s. “Now, I’m not saying hormones are for everybody. I want to make sure you don’t think this is a pro-hormone type of thing.”

That “thing” is her documentary, “Hot Flash Havoc,” described in press materials as “an enlightening, entertaining, humorous, and profound crash course in what every woman and man needs to know about menopause.”o read the article

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Larry Kosmont In BusinessNews Daily

LCO client Larry Kosmont is on BusinessNews Daily telling you: Ready for Real Estate? Now Could Be the Time for Your Biz to Buy.

“At the appropriate time in a company’s evolution, real estate can be a key component of a comprehensive business investment strategy,” said Larry J. Kosmont,  president and CEO of Kosmont Companies.

For many business owners, this is a good time to think about acquiring commercial real estate, “with many properties in cities throughout the country having experienced 30 to 40 percent drops in valuation since the valuation peaks in 2005/2006,” said Kosmont, whose 25-year-old firm is based in Los Angeles.

Real estate is one of the largest operating-cost categories for most small businesses,  typically behind only salaries and benefits, Kosmont noted. He offered the following advice when considering a real estate acquisition.

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OK! Magazine Spotted The Artists Against Drugs Art Show

Connor Cruise (Tom Cruise‘s son) aka DJ CZ Entertainment spinned the Ryan Kugler: Artists Against Drugs Event sponsored by Morton’s Steakhouse at the Satine Boutique on Saturday.

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LCO Client Alan Au In BusinessNewsDaily

Alan Au is featured in the article PopUp Profile: Jimmy Au’s, the Height of Success on BusinessNewsDaily. Alan Au is the client relations director at Jimmy Au’s for Men 5’8” and Under, a company that sells clothing for men 5’8” and under. He tells us who inspired him to become an entrepreneur and what he thinks is the next big thing.

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