Mental Health

We’re talking openly about bullying, but bullying still happens, and its age has gotten younger and younger. Children are hurting and cutting themselves because of what other children are doing to them — and because adults are blind to what children are doing to each other or don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing [...]

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If you’re like me, you live in your head most of the time. Even if your head is a pleasant place to spend a lot of time in, it’s healthy to “get out of your head” once in a while. Daily, actually. If you are someone who suffers from clinical depression, then getting out of [...]

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I was the guest for Bruno LoGreco‘s Ask The Coach twitter chat, a weekly feature of relationship, health, and life topics. I’ve edited this to make it easier to read outside of Twitter. Also: since on Twitter we are limited to 140 characters, we use shorthand (U for “you”, biz for “business”, R for “are”, [...]

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I went out for an errand shortly after learning of well known, popular social media personality Trey Pennington‘s death this morning and seeing a streaming wall of condolence tweets. I was still thinking about Trey’s death when I finished my errand and was driving home. I don’t know Trey personally. But I know people who [...]

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Am I the best person to talk with you about stress? Because I’m one of those anxious, over-thinking, making-it-all-too-complicated, high-strung people who seems to keep aiming her boat upstream and not “merrily down the stream”. My husband jokes about me having the attention span of a fly with attention deficit. I personally prefer the visual [...]

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