This upcoming week is Mental Health Awareness Week. In its honor and in an effort to keep conversations flowing about mental health, public and private, I want to…
Feelings are not facts. Believing, acting on, and making decisions based solely on your feelings will get you in trouble almost every time. Now, before I totally alienate the whole…
I was an emergency medical technician (EMT). Talk about a high-stress job. In a crisis situation, I found that it was a tremendous asset to be able to…
You are not your thoughts. No matter what’s going on in your head, there’s a part of you that is separate from it. There is a part of you…
Smartphones have become essential to almost every part of a person’s life these days: school, work, family, friends, and fun. Originally, phones were functional – a means to…
Everyone has pesky, negative, worrisome thoughts. That’s normal. If you’re lucky, it’s less often than all the time. Why You Have A Negative Brain I’ve seen estimates that…