Trauma can actually alter the function of your brain during the stressful event and result in lasting changes in certain brain regions. These changes can impair cognitive function and memory encoding and recall at the moment and in the future.…
For many of us these days, reading has been reduced to the occasional clicked-on article showing up on our Facebook or Twitter feed, GPS directions, and the monthly bills. If you’re like me, you have a stack of “want-to-read” books…
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 share my personal story. It’s a tale about decades of depression, a…
Music is one of the few activities where people around the globe respond in a common way. It connects all kinds different people across a myriad of cultures, traditions, and practices all over the world. It’s pretty safe to say…
Gathering more information, thinking through possibilities, and making careful, deliberate decisions is better, right? Not always. Eurekas are hardly ever discovered that deliberately. If a solution is outside of your brain’s familiar experience — which is shaped by your beliefs,…
You need to stop by the grocery on the way home from work for two gotta-have items. One of the items is coffee, but you can’t think of the other one to save your life. Every time you sit down…
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 the room erratically depending on the ideas zipping around in our heads. …