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What is All the Buzz About Mindfulness?
Talk of mindfulness is everywhere these days. It seems that courses, books, and talk of mindfulness abound. But, you may be asking, “What exactly is it?” and “How can it…
Read MoreThe Healing Journey | Mental Health Awareness
Today is a new day. Today is a beautiful day. As we move more into summer, leaving behind the month of may – mental health awareness month, let us not…
Read MoreBlack Reasoning | A Blog About Sleep
“How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there,…
Read MoreMama Guilt | The Fallacy of Perception & Postpartum Depression
Today, at the moms group I facilitated with Nicole Uzendoski, MSW, LICSW, we focused on an important part of being a mom in this day and age, well actually, just…
Read MoreThe Weight of a Secret | Coping with Depression and Anxiety
Secret keeping is such a common occurrence that we rarely think of it as a sickness. While we don’t want to over-pathologize normal human behaviors, it’s important to recognize what’s…
Read MoreThe Art of Saying ‘No’ | Practicing Self-Care
Some people are amazing at saying ‘No.’ I am not one of these people. Saying ‘No’ to someone stirs up so many things in me – I don’t want to…
Read MoreOne Step Forward, One Step Back
In discussing the final episodes of the series, Mad Men, one of the actors in the show – John Slattery – remarked upon how sophisticated it is that the characters’ storylines…
Read MoreOn Grief and Loss…
I was struck once again by the raw reality of grief and loss just the other day when I heard about a friend of mine who lost their mother, his…
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