January 2004, No. 1
Offerings:
Training Kit; R&R CD & Safe Stress E-Book; AOL Chat
Shrink Rap: A Stress Guide for Overachievers
Heads Up: Anger E-Book, Mid-Columbia, WA & MD Cold Fusion User Group
Readers: Coffee Clashes & Who's in Charge?
Sec. II
Main Essay: Disarming a Critical Aggressor: Part I

February 2004, No.1
Shrink Rap:
A Country Under Pressure and Who Knows War?
More Rap: The Death-Birth-and-Rebirth of a Literary Notion
Heads Up: Dallas Morning News & The Hartford Courant
Readers: The Mind of Steven Wright; 15 Pieces of Advice
Offerings: Training Kit; R&R CD; Safe Stress & Anger E-Books; AOL
Chat
Sec. II
Main Essay: Disarming a Critical Aggressor: Part II

March 2004, No 1
Shrink Rap:
(a) From Transition to Transformation: Communing with "Chiros"
(b) When an Email Seems Like a Missile
Work Q & A:
When Management Ignores Workplace Threats
Readers:
Workplace Vocabulary Additions, Existential Sad but Truisms
Sec. II
Main Essay:
Myth of the Phoenix and PsychJourney
Heads Up:
SHRM-- Maryland Chapters, Natl Assn of Catering Execs
Offerings:
Training Kit; R&R CD; Safe Stress & Anger E-Books; AOL Chat

April 2004, No. 1
Work Q & A: Confronting
the Abrupt and Disturbing Loss of a Company Leader
Readers:
Three Men In a Sauna,
What Does Love Mean?
Sec. II
Main Essay: Safe
Stress Tips for the Springtime
Shrink Rap: "The
Passion" of Gibson vs. the Passion of Gorkin
Heads Up:
PESI Healthcare, Paralegal
SuperConference & Building Owners Assn.
Offerings:
Training Kit, Books, CD
and AOL Chat

May 2004, No 1
Shrink
Rap:
The Birth and
the Path: The Conjunction of Head, Heart and Healing
Work Q & A: When Management Ignores Workplace Threats
Main Essay: Coping With and Planning For Job Uncertainty, Downsizing
or a Reorg
Part II
Readers:
I Love My Job! (The Lost Dr. Seuss Poem); Signs That You've Grown Up
Heads Up: CFUN04 (plus interview); Howard County HR Society, Assn of
Wedding
Planners; Maryland Assn of Election Officials; Legal
Administrators
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

June 2004, No 1
Shrink Rap: PODn My Invasion: Challenging the Prejudices and
Practices of the
Conventional Publishing/Bookselling World
Main Essay: Managing the Belligerent Employee in a Healing Space
Section II
Readers: What Every Non-Nerd Owner Knows; Disorder in the Court
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

July 2004, No 1
Shrink Rap I:
Creativie Risk-Taking: Tips and Strategies
Shrink Rap II: A Thermostatic Approach to Communication and Leadership
Readers: Dolly and the Queen and Life
Section II
Main Essay: Speaker-Leader Transformation: Art of Powerful
Presentation
Heads Up: Center for Disease Control, Celebrity Cruise Lines et
al.
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

August 2004, No 1
Shrink Rap: Stress Overture
Main Essay I: Are You Surviving the Burnout Battlefront?
Main Essay II: A Three-Step Model of Burnout Recovery
Readers: Words to Live By
Section II
Main Essay III: Prevention: Natural SPEED and Psychological Hardiness
Heads Up: Estrin Paralegal Superconference, PESI Health Care,
Howard County Community College Health Fare, Indiana Univ.
Kelley School of Business
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

September 2004, No 1
Shrink Rap:
Why Is It Hard to "Just Say 'No'"? -- Part I
Readers: Survivng the Florida Hurricane Battlefront, Gender Nouns
Section II
Main Essay: Thermostatic Leadership (Attached) & SPEED Rap (Revised)
Heads Up: Washington Navy Yard, Estrin Paralegal and Dept. of Justice
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

October 2004, No 1
Shrink Rap:
The Assertive Art of "N & N" - Part II: How to Say "No and to Negotiate"
Readers: Just for Grins
Heads Up:
Washington Navy Yard, Estrin Paralegal and Dept. of Justice
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

November 2004, No 1
Section I
Shrink Rap I:
Practice Safe Stress for the Holidays
Shrink Rap II: Don't "Just Say No": The Art of "N & N"
Readers: Investment Terminology and Playing It Safe
Section II
Main Article: Readers' Post-Election Reflections
Heads Up: Churchill Hotel, Estrin Legal Education, Montgomery
County, MD Dept. of Housing
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat

December 2004, No 1
Section I
Shrink Rap I:
Lights, Camera, Action: Transitioning from the Cave to the Stage
Readers: Canada Busy Sending Back Bush-Dodgers
Section II
Main Article: Disarming Critical and Power-Driven Aggressors
Heads Up: Dept. of Justice/Federal Witness Assistance Unit, American
Industrial
Hygiene Assn
Offerings: Training Kit, Books, CD and AOL Chat
