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It’s Mental Health Awareness Week! Let’s get the word out that mental illness is NOT a condition that effects a small portion of our society. Facts don’t lie. One in five people in any given year will be challenged by a mental illness. Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world according to […]

Thinking about that final exam next week; that next project director’s meeting, or an upcoming speaking engagement? Feeling tense and anxious, even flush or breaking out in a sweat? Anxiety symptoms vary from person to person and can be mildly to moderately disturbing as a normal part of life, in response to facing challenging or […]

The day I learned that Robin Williams had died it was as if everything stopped and stood still. That moment was surreal. In the same space of time I felt both grieved and shocked – but not entirely. It was a locomotive that could’ve been seen coming. That’s what we tell ourselves after the fact. […]

How many times have we said, or heard someone say, “I’ve got spring fever”? What does having spring fever mean, anyway? In an effort to gather data *wink* on the matter, I asked a small sample of my own household (N=1). What is spring fever? Not surprisingly, I heard pretty much what I expected to […]