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Thinking it through with Latoya!
Jun 20, 20221 min read
Bibliotherapy for Mental Health
Mindy Lawrence Although reading is good for everyone, it's particularly helpful for those with mental health challenges. Talking about...
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...
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Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults
Mindy Lawrence Autism is a serious disease that can be anywhere from mild to severe. Most often the cases we hear about are when children...
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MEN CAN SAY NO, TOO
Mindy Lawrence Although women are more susceptible to sexual abuse, a man can also face the same treatment by a woman. Someone can follow...
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 8, 20221 min read
MENTAL HEALTH: SHADOW WORK
Mindy Lawrence The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung was the first to talk about the “shadow self.” He defined the 'shadow' as the side of...
May 4, 20221 min read
MENTAL HEALTH AND NAOMI JUDD
Mindy Lawrence On April 30, 2022, Naomi Judd, half of the country singing duo The Judds, took her life. For years she had been fighting...
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 29, 20221 min read
Emotional Detachment: Dissociative Identity Disorder
ental health problems, Mindy Lawrence Dissociative identity disorder was once called Multiple Personality Disorder – or having multiple...
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Depression and Shopping
Mindy Lawrence When I was going through a divorce many years ago, I had no idea how depressed I was. I bought something to make me feel...
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...
Apr 20, 20221 min read
ADVERTISING AND DEPRESSION
Mindy Lawrence Advertising entices people to buy items that they may or may not need. Ads show how much better someone’s life will...
Apr 15, 20223 min read
THERAPY DOGS AND MENTAL HEALTH
By Mindy Lawrence People who suffer from anxiety often seek a resource to help them with emotional support. An emotional support animal...
Apr 8, 20221 min read
UNHAPPINESS AND HOW TO COPE
Mindy Lawrence Unhappiness is bound up in so many other issues—the world situation, workplace woes, a person’s problems at home,...
Apr 4, 20222 min read
MENTAL HEALTH: RECOVERING FROM GRIEF
Mindy Lawrence This is the anniversary of a dear friend’s death 26 years ago. I don’t remember him with the same pain I had then, but I...
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Hoarding Disorder
Mindy Lawrence When you think of hoarding, you may think of grandma’s 400 coffee cups or your friend’s 1500 books, but hoarding and...
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Dealing with Medical Gaslighting
By Mindy Lawrence If your doctor tells you that you aren’t really sick, that it’s in your head, or if you’d just lose weight, you’d be...
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