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20 Most Recent Post Titles with Excerpts
A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts with linked titles, author and date, a short excerpt, and a continue-reading link.
Hold the phones– the New York Times may have just body-shamed Serena Williams. An article published on July 10th on Times begins by quoting the tennis star (who just won her 6th Wimbledon title) not on her past wins or how she’s managed to achieved such incredible success over the years, but instead on how she hides her “mold-breaking muscular arms” while…
Continue reading...Just Picture It The Center for Psychological Research, Shenyang, in China recently released a new ad campaign through advertising company Ogilvy & Mather China that makes a bold, symbolic statement about an uprising issue: cell phone addiction. The ads do a great job of raising awareness about cell phone addiction in an incredibly impactful way. That could…
Continue reading...Using Symbolism to Combat Mental Health Issues Because a semi-colon only represents a pause in a sentence, not the end, it has become symbolic for many people who have suffered from the effects of mental illness. Ten years after her father committed suicide, Amy Bleuei began the mental health awareness program, Project Semicolon in 2013, using…
Continue reading...Editor’s Note: For some time now I have been hearing voices in my head. :) Voices that are a quiet dialogue between the different parts of me. The voice of wisdom gained is talking to the young one that forever lives in memory. No matter our age there is a young child that lives within.…
Continue reading...To Tell or Not To Tell Your Boss About Your Mental Illness: That is the Question Comedian and author Ruby Wax recently told the UK based Times that the answer is no. No, you should not be talking about your mental illness at work, she says. The Guardian reports Wax told the Times “When people say,…
Continue reading...From the entire Healthy Sense of Self Team, Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Be sure to take the necessary safety measures during this Fourth of July weekend to keep you and your family safe. Remember, temperatures are soaring this time of year, and many locations around the country are more subject to wildfires during this time.…
Continue reading...According to a study release June 22, teenagers who face mental health problems could grow up to be adults who struggle in the work place. While the study does not make any definitive conclusions about the connection, it does prove that there is a relationship between certain health factors and overall educational and, therefore, occupational, outcomes…
Continue reading...As you may have heard, on Father’s Day, Oliver Hudson posted a photo of himself, sister Kate Hudson and father Bill Hudson with the caption “Happy Abandonment Day” to Instagram. On the same day, both Oliver and Kate posted a photos with themselves and step father Kurt Russell, wishing him a happy father’s day. The…
Continue reading...The Supreme Court broke history as it ruled in favor of same sex marriage on Friday, and according to social scientists, the change should positively influence the mental health of those who will now benefit from the equally afforded right. Studies Show Same Sex Marriage Could Benefit Well-Being According to HealthDay.com, Robin Simon, a professor in the…
Continue reading...Could Mindful Meditation Work As Well As Your Prescription? Mindfulness is “moment-by-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, characterized mainly by “acceptance” – attention to thoughts and feelings without judging whether they are right or wrong,” according to Truth Theory. In a recent article on the Truth Theory site, Michael Forrester writes…
Continue reading...At New York City’s Brooklyn Urban Garden School (BUGS) students can often be found starting and end the day with about 15 minutes of doing absolutely nothing. Nothing besides mindfully meditating, that is. The Huffington Post recently wrote about how the school implements meditation in it’s classrooms, and how that meditation seems to be making…
Continue reading...This new ad from Angel Soft presents a stunning and tear inducing homage to single mothers everywhere. Oh, and it also wishes those mothers a happy Father’s Day. And rightfully so. We know that moms play so many roles–friend, leader, comforter–and moms who do it alone play even more roles, including the all-important one of “Dad.” But while…
Continue reading...Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is … or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us. According to Donald Hoffman, in this TED talk, the greatest unsolved…
Continue reading...We might be covering up more than just shoulders. There has been a lot of talk lately about dress code in schools, and the debate goes a little something like this: are these rules protecting our young women or are we punishing them for society’s over-sexualization of the female body and preventing them from being themselves? Jezebel…
Continue reading...June is the 21st annual Men’s Health Month, and today is the start of International Men’s Health week. Celebrated each year during the week leading up to and including Father’s Day, President Clinton signed Men’s Health Week into law in 1994, and rightfully so: we needed to pay more attention to men’s health back then, and we…
Continue reading...Piper Kerman Invites Inmates to Talk about Experiences With the recent of season 3 of Orange is the New Black last night, there’s talk about Piper Chapman and her fellow cell mates just about everywhere. Among the clutter is a TedTalk by the real Pipes, Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black: My…
Continue reading...When marketing director and fashion blogger Christina Topacio received texts from a person she never met before telling her she needs to lose weight, she did the best thing ever. The texter told the Topacio that “…its nothing that you don’t already know. And I’m positive you’ve already thought about it. And I’m only telling…
Continue reading...It starts for some when choosing a major in college: you go for the more practical one, not the one you really want to learn about. Instead of art history, you choose law. Then it continues as we grow older: we have to take that job we’re not so passionate about because it pays the bills…
Continue reading...20 Most Recent Post Titles
A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts.