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5 Ways to Create Happiness Despite Hardship
The idea of creating happiness can sound absurd when you're facing hardship. Sometimes, life makes people want to stop, turn around, and retreat to bed indefinitely. This can make a whole lot of sense, because life can be incredibly stressful.…
Split and Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
Split is a movie that portrays a man living with dissociative identity disorder (DID), a mental disorder that develops in childhood as a defense mechanism against severe trauma, usually in the form of abuse. My daughter first introduced me to…
Split, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and a Fear Factor
The movie Split premiers today, January 20, 2017. Is Split another movie in a long line of sensationalist movies that uses mental illness as a fear factor to trigger our psyches to spring into alert, inducing that edge-of-the-seat sensation that…
Feeling Overwhelmed? Take Back Your Wellbeing
Feeling overwhelmed? You're not alone. Life, as wonderful as it often is, can also be quite stressful. Demands and deadlines can stretch people to their limit. Many different things can cause us to feel overwhelmed. The stressors of daily life…
Lowering Stigma: Mental Health Novel Receives Top Recognition
Twenty-Four Shadows has received honors from top book review companies. Kirkus Reviews awarded Twenty-Four Shadows a Kirkus Star, a rating reserved for "books of remarkable merit." Additionally, the US Review of Books has given this novel a Recommended rating, also…
Sing Through Life’s Storms
Ah, life. So many adjectives describe it. Magnificent, stressful, wonderful, difficult, joyous, challenging, invigorating, and exhausting are but a few words that apply to the four-letter-word "life" (and there are, indeed, some four-letter-words that can also describe it). Note that…
What Will Be Different When You Open Your Window?
Let's face it. Being human is often no easy task. Myriad challenges can greet us on a daily, even an hourly, basis. We face struggles both intrapersonal and interpersonal. There are work difficulties and home difficulties. Illnesses physical and mental…