Bibliotherapy for Mental Health
Mindy Lawrence Although reading is good for everyone, it's particularly helpful for those with mental health challenges. Talking about...
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Thinking it through with Latoya!
Jun 15, 20221 min read
Mental Health and Food
Mindy Lawrence When you think of help for mental health, you usually think of counseling and medication. One thing not addressed as often...
Jun 9, 20221 min read
Journaling for Mental Self-Care
Mindy Lawrence Self-care is designed to ease our frustration and anxiety caused by everyday life. It’s not just pleasant baths and...
May 9, 20221 min read
Emotional Abuse: Self-Sabotage
Mindy Lawrence Cookbook and children’s author Crescent Dragonwagon tells participants in her classes to stop listening to radio station...
May 2, 20221 min read
15 Minutes of Daily Mental Hygiene
Mindy Lawrence Life gets hectic and stressful. When this happens to you, you need to take a mental health break. It’s like removing...
Apr 22, 20221 min read
MAGIC MUSHROOMS AS THERAPY
Mindy Lawrence Some tools for therapy can be controversial. Magic mushrooms fit that description. Still only allowed in certain cities in...
Mar 7, 20221 min read
The Mental Benefits of Self-Care
By Mindy Lawrence We live in a crazy world that bombards us with negatives and noise. When we get a moment to take care of ourselves,...
Feb 28, 20222 min read
MENTAL HEALTH: Bookbinding and Mental Health
by: Mindy Lawrence When everything closes in and you need an escape, art is often a good means of running away. One of the art forms used...
Feb 24, 20221 min read
MENTAL HEALTH: MUSIC THERAPY FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Music therapy doesn’t ask you to join a band or perform at Carnegie Hall. It lets you use music as a method to help you with anxiety and...
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Parenting Mistakes
STOP THE CYCLE! DON'T: 1. Constantly compare your child with other children-- especially siblings, cousins, neighbors or schoolmates. 2....
Jan 28, 20222 min read
MENTAL HEALTH: FINANCIAL STRESS--WHAT IS IT AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.
by Mindy Lawrence Financial Stress is: “A condition that is the result of financial and/or economic events that create anxiety, worry, or...
Jan 24, 20221 min read
The Arts and Mental Health: Art Therapy
In 1942, British artist Adrian Hill first developed the term “art therapy” when he was recovering from tuberculosis in a sanitarium. He...
Jan 14, 20222 min read
Till It Happens to You...
By Joyce Faulkner For a few years, back in the day, I volunteered for a Rape Crisis Center in a big city. After training, I served as a...
Jan 11, 20221 min read
Learning How to Love Starts Early!
Attachment Theory
Jan 5, 20221 min read
New Year, New Plans, New Problems!
When that clock ticks over to a New Year, we have our resolutions all planned out! We are going to lose weight, learn to fly, buy a car,...
Jan 3, 20220 min read
Jan 1, 20222 min read
Starting Over—New Beginning!
New Year’s Day is often thought of as a restart button. I’m gonna change on this date. I’m gonna shed my old skin and emerge fresh and...
Dec 22, 20211 min read
BEING VULNERABLE
Vulnerability can be uncomfortable but it’s the direction to joy and love. It’s a strength and not a weakness. It builds empathy and...
Dec 22, 20211 min read
MENTAL HEALTH
We all have a social and mental side. All of them together form our mental health. Mental health is important from the time we are born...
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