They say it’s always darkest before the dawn, and as this life-changing year draws to a close, it will get darker. Both literally and figuratively as daylight savings time ends this weekend. 2020 notwithstanding, now is the time many feel SAD. There is less sunlight, and we enjoy the outside less. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) […]
Even during the best of times, relationships can be complicated. Sometimes, the road of communication seems to be under construction. In uncertain times the road can get rocky, and cultivating positive relationships is vital. We are all in uncharted waters, and many of us are suddenly faced with working from home. Children are now learning […]
According to Webster’s dictionary, anxiety is “apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill”. Anxiety, while all too familiar to me and most likely many of you as well, seems now to be a persistent perturbation that pervades all areas of life now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing anxiety of that scope […]
At our core we want to have certainty in our lives. When things are uncertain and feel beyond our control it can leave us with a sense of not feeling safe. This contributes to anxiety, worry and fear. The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is very stressful and is leaving many of us feeling […]
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn It has occurred to me that we are a lot like eggs. How, you may ask? Well, we can be fried when we are just simply worn down, scrambled when we are overwhelmed and doing everything at once, […]
I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking and then problems fix themselves.” –motivational speaker Louise L. Hay We live in an information-rich era where it seems like there is more available to us than we can assimilate and process in a lifetime. What I’ve seen, as we are bombarded with this veritable storehouse […]
by Jill Davis, CPFS
Well, here we are again, looking through the lens of time to the possibilities of a new year. I have a vision of Father Time standing in front of each of us as an optometrist would, with an archaic-looking mask that holds different lenses of years that have passed, asking “better 2018 or 2019? Better […]
Did you feel it? The sudden, gusty wind change from fall to seasonal pandemonium that just blew past at record speed? One minute, streets were filled with trick-or-treaters hoping for a lifelong bounty of sweets, and the next, Santa and his sidekicks pushed pumpkins off of the shelf in a mad race for first place […]
Michelle Hoy, LPC, CAC III Executive Vice President, Mind Springs Health Did you know that nearly twice as many people die by their own hands than in car accidents? Why do so many people take their own life? More importantly, what can we as community do about it? As mental health professionals, we believe that […]
Julie shares her thoughts on mental illness as a dis-ease and breaking down the stigma surrounding it.
