May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which was created to break the stigma often associated with talking about mental health issues or finding care. In fact, we have observed Mental Health Awareness Month since 1949. That’s 71 years. That’s three to four generations...
We are six weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic. Six weeks of social distancing. Six weeks of non-stop news, complete with graphics saturated in red that look more like they should be on a poster for a thriller movie instead of news about a health crisis. And although we...
March has been one hell of a month. With schools and businesses shut down across the country without warning, everyday necessities like toilet paper and bread becoming unavailable overnight, and the world-wide COVID 19 pandemic on everyone’s mind, life has gotten very...
If you are a human of a certain age, you probably heard the phrase, “Don’t cry, or I’ll give you something to cry about” at some point in your childhood. Maybe you dropped your ice-cream cone on the ground, or your sibling got something that you wanted, and you burst...
Last month many schools celebrated No Name-Calling Week, an event created in 2004 to fight bullying and name-calling in kids from pre-school to high school. As I thought about anti-bullying, and not calling names, I started thinking about how we as adults have a...
