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Cynthia Barnett has lived in Raleigh since 1985, having moved here from Connecticut. She’s married and has three adult children and one adult stepdaughter.

Her husband is a senior chemist in Air Toxics for the state of North Carolina.

Among several careers, she has worked as the director of public affairs for North Carolina State’s Chamber of Commerce, as executive director for the NC Writers’ Network and is now the officially appointed representative to the Christian Science Committee on Publication for North Carolina. She also writes about Christian Science at http://www.christiansciencenorthcarolina.com/author/cynthia-barnett/

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Stress relief in a bottle or in a prayer?

| Apr 24, 2013

When stress does shark circles around writer Cynthia Barnett, she looks inward and upward. She writes: "It may not come in a bottle of eucalyptus and spearmint, but prayer unlooses a flood of soothing thoughts, good ideas for practical action, and most of all, a deepened sense of God’s love and Christly comfort. When I turn to my Creator in prayer, a flow of reassurance begins to work at once."
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For Alcohol Awareness Month, spiritual steps on the path to recovery

| Mar 25, 2013

During Alcohol Awareness Month, Cynthia Barnett gives testimonies of a family who overcame addiction. 
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The things we heart, the things we carry

| Feb 14, 2013

This Valentine's Day, writer Cynthia Barnett asks: "But what do we really love? Another person? Higher values? Lower impulses? Things? Ourselves? Maybe a mixture of all these, if we’re honest. Depending on what we love, we could feel light and happy or burdened and encumbered."
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For Wise Health Care: Add a dash of Love

| Jan 22, 2013

Cynthia Barnett discusses that essential and often overlooked component in health care: love.
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Know any health care jokes?

| Dec 26, 2012

Cynthia Barnett says: "I don’t recommend that we suspend compassion and caring for those who are sick and suffering. This is serious business. But I do believe that humor, a most healthy state of thought, has a place in our health care system."
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Heal thyself? Fix thy thoughts.

| Nov 20, 2012

A multivitamin will keep you healthy. Well, maybe not. Flossing is good for your heart. Well, not really. What's the one constant in health research contradictions? The effect your state of mind has on your body. 
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Is Biomedicine the Only Path to Cure Breast Cancer?

| Oct 31, 2012

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month ends, Cynthia Barnett writes about the little pink ribbon and other ways to support women with breast cancer. 
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Ready for a Sea Change in Health Care?

| Oct 8, 2012

Writer Cynthia Barnett asks: "But what if (healthcare) reforms were based on a radically different approach: the assumption that thought, not body, influenced our health?"
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Health care for healthy hearts

| Sep 4, 2012

After Cynthia Barnett's mother-in-law was able to cure a heart problem through prayer, Barnett has discovered more evidence of the effect meditation can have on heart health.
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The doc who wouldn’t make Angie’s List

| Aug 1, 2012

In order to practice prevention, many people today are also turning to yoga, meditation and other mindfulness practices that address thought as well as the body.
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