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Love is Love
This blog is being written to honor and celebrate those who have identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual identity. LGBTQ History Month has been celebrated since 1994. Those who identify as...
May 2022-Mental Health Awareness Month*** Let’s Better Understand Bipolar Disorder
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This topic is important to me for a variety of reasons, including the fact that I work as a licensed psychotherapist. Additionally, I grew up in a home with a parent who suffered from mental illness. My mother was diagnosed with...
Guidelines for Staying Emotionally Healthy during a Pandemic
By John Adams Whenever a pandemic strikes, protecting physical health is the priority. The outbreak of Covid-19 forced the world into lockdown and taught us a lot about sanitary practices to kill and prevent the spread of germs. Isolating ourselves inside our homes...
How to Build Confidence and Get Back on the Road to Success
December 2021: How to Build Confidence and Get Back on the Road to Success By: Marjorie McMillian at www.Comeongetwell.net When you lose confidence, it seems like the world is crashing around you, and you feel like hiding in your shell and staying there. You're not...
How to Navigate Lifestyle Changes During the Pandemic
Photo via Pexels "This month's blog is written by by a guest contributor who offered her thoughts and insights about life during this challenging pandemic time. Thank you to Jennifer Scott for her helpful and insightful contribution this month. Jennifer Scott is a...
COVID 19 Reflections/Black Lives DO Matter
Who would have ever predicted that the year 2020 would bring about such change that our normal daily lives would be so radically upended? The coronavirus pandemic and recent racial protests following the death of George Floyd have shifted our physical, emotional,...
Faith & Hope in Challenging Times April 2020
Just three short months ago, we were welcoming the beginning of a New Year and new decade, rich with hope, ripe with opportunity and filled with new goals to be pursued. Only three months later we find ourselves in the midst of unprecedented times with the onslaught...
October 2019- LGBTQ+ History Month
(www.huffingtonpost.com) While LGBTQ Pride Month is typically celebrated in June every year, LGBTQ History Month has come to be celebrated in October to coincide with National Coming Out Day on October 11th. This blog is being written to honor and celebrate...
Inspirational Thoughts for the End of Summer
Pixabay Inspirational Thoughts for the End of Summer While doing some summer cleaning recently, I came across some old calendars that showed the day to day activities of my family’s life from years past. It is interesting to see where we have been, what changes have...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month: Save a Life: Recognizing the Signs of Suicide and Suicide Prevention
Image via pixabay May is Mental Health Awareness Month and an important time for disseminating information, support and resources to my clients and readers. It is estimated that one in five individuals suffers from some type of mental illness. One in 25 Americans...
Happy New Year 2019: Happy New You
Happy New Year 2019! Another year has come upon us and the first month of 2019 has already passed us by! As we start the New Year off, I think about the lessons learned in the past year, the current status of my life and the goals I want to accomplish in the...
October 2018- Truth Does Matter
October 2018 Blog- Truth Does Matter Earlier this month, we witnessed the intense and passionate testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court hearings. The message this event relays to us once again is that women have been taken...
6 Tips to Help You Beat Addiction and Find Happiness in 2018
6 Tips to Help You Beat Addiction and Find Happiness in 2018 (Adam Cook started AddictionHub.org after losing a friend to substance abuse and suicide. He is passionate about helping people find the necessary resources to save their lives from addiction. Thank...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month While I have been writing a blog post every quarter for the past couple of years, I thought it was important to recognize the month of May as Mental Health Awareness month. Melissa Metzger, a student at UCF, has agreed to share...
The Benefits of Art & Music Therapy
Photo by stux For the month of April, I am happy to welcome a contributing post from the founder of RecoveryPride.org. Michelle Peterson is the founder and manager of RecoveryPride.org, an organization that seeks to de-stigmatize substance abuse and those who...
Happy New Year 2018!
Zion National Park Mountain Goats Happy New Year 2018! Reflections on the past year and recent news items: It is hard to believe we have come to the end of another year and are off to a new start with 2018. In a way, it has been a difficult year for many-reminders...
October 2017-Developing Positive Character Strengths
October 2017 Blog- Discovering Virtuous Character Strengths As I find myself getting this blog out a month late this October, I recognize how quickly time seems to slip away as the hot, hot summer has now made way for the welcome change of cooler temperatures this...
August 2017- Discovering Virtuous Character Strengths
August 2017---Discovering Virtuous Character Strengths It is hard to believe that summer has been flying by so quickly! I anticipated a blog post in early July, though seemed to be side-tracked by a busy month of activity, work and time out of the office. The...