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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 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 21, 20220 min read
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 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...
Mar 18, 20221 min read
SEXUAL ASSAULT: LOCKER ROOM TALK
By Mindy Lawrence As long as I can remember, I‘ve heard the phrase “locker room talk.” It’s supposedly the rough and tumble banter that...
Mar 9, 20221 min read
SEXUAL ASSAULT: CONSENT
By Mindy Lawrence Sexual consent is an important part of sexual relations. Getting and giving permission to have sex with someone, or...
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 11, 20222 min read
ART THERAPY and MENTAL HEALTH
By Mindy Lawrence Arts and crafts, in almost any form, are therapeutic. Whether you draw, paint, play music, make pottery, or make books,...
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...
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