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Over recent decades, mindfulness has gone from being an alternative concept associated with incense and granola to becoming a scientifically validated therapeutic mental health tool. Analyzing the practice with…
It’s a long holiday weekend in the U.S. and the official start of the Christmas season. This time of year is filled with gatherings of friends, families, and coworkers, twinkly lights, lots…
Over recent decades, mindfulness has gone from being an “out there” fringe topic to becoming a mainstream scientifically-validated concept. It’s now being utilized as a method of therapy,…
I recently finished reading the novel, Before We Were Yours. It is based on a true story about the Tennessee Children’s Home Society and its Director, Georgia Tann. Ms.…
In India, when training elephants, handlers begin by chaining one of the elephant’s legs to a tree. Over time, they gradually decrease the size of the chain until…
“Time is a great healer” – how many times have you heard this reassuring phrase meaning that any painful and difficult situation won’t seem as bad as time…
Although we still don’t know all that we’d like to, science has come a long way in understanding what depression looks like in your brain. It’s now known…
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that often appears as simple forgetfulness and can quickly develop into a life-changing condition that impairs memory and speech, destroys comprehension and coordination, and ends…
This upcoming week is Mental Health Awareness Week. In its honor and in an effort to keep conversations flowing about mental health, public and private, I want to…
Sadly, many of us live our lives like a ping pong ball – bouncing from thought to thought and shooting up, down, off of the table, and across…
I was an emergency medical technician (EMT). Talk about a high-stress job. In a crisis situation, I found that it was a tremendous asset to be able to…
