As we move into the New Year I thought it might be helpful to invite you to pause to consider the friends you have and how healthy those relationships are. Questions to Ponder: Previously I wrote a blog post about membership circles, a concept that can help us explore this topic. To briefly recap, we […]
How You Can Become a Trauma-Advocate
As a country we have been watching election results and attempting to predict what we as a country might be in for in the newly elected Congress. What is true is that our government has huge impact on what happens nationally and globally. I think the funding given to Ukraine was very revealing about our […]
At Last We Can Hug Each Other And Why That’s So Important
One of the biggest losses for all of us during the pandemic was the lack of comfortably touching or hugging each other except perhaps in the privacy of our own homes. Even then, many of us were on edge, fearing that somehow we were exchanging Covid germs. Hugging and touching was to be avoided in […]
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, […]
COVID-19 and Collective Trauma
Some of the lasting symptoms of COVID-19 can be defined as collective trauma. In fact this form of PTSD will leave lasting effects to many Americans and others in the world. As we have conversations with one another we recognize that we are just not the same as we were two years ago. Many of […]
Some Relief from COVID Protocols
It is hard to believe that schools and businesses have been working through health and safety plans for two years now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I do not think any of us could have predicted that we would be in such a crazy set of circumstances like we have experienced. Here at Lakeside, we’ve […]
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 […]
Are You Battling Pandemic Brain Fog?
I can’t even begin to count the time I have had friends, family and co-workers complain about having brain fog during the COVID-19. It seems the longer we are in this pandemic the more brain fog we are feeling. It is frustrating and sometimes quite scary to think about this kind of mental incapacity. I […]
Has the Pandemic caused Collective Trauma?
I have been writing and surfacing research about how traumatic the pandemic has become to so many individuals. We have seen a rise in mental health issues and related concerns that have had devastating impact to our students, families and our culture. In some ways the pandemic has trapped us into a state of isolation, […]
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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