Recently I had a conversation with a friend about the struggles we have prioritizing our lives. It seems like there are so many needs, issues, demands for our time and energy by those around us – kids, family, work, responsibilities around our homes, in groups we are a part of, in meeting our own needs, to […]
Are You a Critical Thinker or a Critical Person?
Here’s an understatement: we are living in turbulent, confusing and intense times. The press is filled with stories of various crises connected with the pandemic, societal and political unrest, revelations about horrific injustice and inequities that have been overlooked by a large portion of the population, and economic turmoil generating fears about what the future […]
Do You Cherish Freedom?
The current news has us upset, dismayed, offended, alarmed, and outraged by what is happening in Ukraine. The images we see every day as Russia continues its efforts to overtake the Ukrainian country and its millions of citizens activates something almost primal within us as a people living in a country that defines itself as […]
Have Your Senses and Values Been Altered and Desensitized?
You may be familiar with the story of the frog and the boiling water. Here’s a recap: “Urban myth has it that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will instantly leap out. But if you put it in a pot filled with pleasantly tepid water and gradually heat it, […]
Life as an Empath: Pros and Cons
I have many high school memories of dealing with panic attacks that I now realize were in part the result of my being an empath. I would sit in my classes, overwhelmed by the realization that each person had their own inner thoughts, feelings and sensations and it was almost like a magnetic pull to […]
Are You Feeling Hug-Deprived Because of Covid?
As we all know, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on most of us, causing varying degrees of stress, fear, loss, anxiety, grief and other struggles. Our normal lives have been disrupted and continue to be acutely impacted by this pandemic. Our previous normal seems to be gone, our patterns of life deeply altered. Something […]
The Recipe for “Opinion Soup”
We live in an opinionated world. Or maybe I should say, in my opinion, we live in an opinionated world. Opinions impact our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors. I thought we might benefit from taking a short journey into the nature of opinions, both our own and those of others, how we create them and our […]
Should We Fear for our Democracy?
Recently a colleague sent me an article describing the Tylter Cycle that describes how civilizations that originally were designed to be democracies experienced a predictable series of changes that ultimately led to the demise of that democracy. I found the information both intriguing and frightening, considering the current politicized and fractured state of our country. […]
The Power We Have To Prevent PTSD
As important as it is to understand what trauma is all about, it is really the symptoms after having experienced it that can so profoundly impact someone’s life. Whether physically painful and/or emotionally devastating, trauma often leads to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with its many very troubling symptoms. These symptoms include ongoing fear and anxiety, […]
The Importance of Unplugging from the News
Living through this pandemic has created a myriad of interesting and often very challenging problems associated with mental health. One of these is news addiction. Many of us feel like we are living on the edge, that the world we once knew has disappeared and almost every day we hear reports of the many ways […]
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