Bibliotherapy for Mental Health
Mindy Lawrence Although reading is good for everyone, it's particularly helpful for those with mental health challenges. Talking about...
Thinking it through with Latoya!
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Mental Health and Food
Mindy Lawrence When you think of help for mental health, you usually think of counseling and medication. One thing not addressed as often...
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Journaling for Mental Self-Care
Mindy Lawrence Self-care is designed to ease our frustration and anxiety caused by everyday life. It’s not just pleasant baths and...
- May 9
- 1 min
Emotional Abuse: Self-Sabotage
Mindy Lawrence Cookbook and children’s author Crescent Dragonwagon tells participants in her classes to stop listening to radio station...
- May 2
- 1 min
15 Minutes of Daily Mental Hygiene
Mindy Lawrence Life gets hectic and stressful. When this happens to you, you need to take a mental health break. It’s like removing...
- Apr 22
- 1 min
MAGIC MUSHROOMS AS THERAPY
Mindy Lawrence Some tools for therapy can be controversial. Magic mushrooms fit that description. Still only allowed in certain cities in...
- Mar 7
- 1 min
The Mental Benefits of Self-Care
By Mindy Lawrence We live in a crazy world that bombards us with negatives and noise. When we get a moment to take care of ourselves,...
- Feb 28
- 2 min
MENTAL HEALTH: Bookbinding and Mental Health
by: Mindy Lawrence When everything closes in and you need an escape, art is often a good means of running away. One of the art forms used...
- Feb 24
- 1 min
MENTAL HEALTH: MUSIC THERAPY FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Music therapy doesn’t ask you to join a band or perform at Carnegie Hall. It lets you use music as a method to help you with anxiety and...
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Parenting Mistakes
STOP THE CYCLE! DON'T: 1. Constantly compare your child with other children-- especially siblings, cousins, neighbors or schoolmates. 2....
- Jan 28
- 2 min
MENTAL HEALTH: FINANCIAL STRESS--WHAT IS IT AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.
by Mindy Lawrence Financial Stress is: “A condition that is the result of financial and/or economic events that create anxiety, worry, or...
- Jan 24
- 1 min
The Arts and Mental Health: Art Therapy
In 1942, British artist Adrian Hill first developed the term “art therapy” when he was recovering from tuberculosis in a sanitarium. He...
- Jan 14
- 2 min
Till It Happens to You...
By Joyce Faulkner For a few years, back in the day, I volunteered for a Rape Crisis Center in a big city. After training, I served as a...
- Jan 11
- 1 min
Learning How to Love Starts Early!
Attachment Theory
- Jan 5
- 1 min
New Year, New Plans, New Problems!
When that clock ticks over to a New Year, we have our resolutions all planned out! We are going to lose weight, learn to fly, buy a car,...
- Jan 3
- 0 min
- Jan 1
- 2 min
Starting Over—New Beginning!
New Year’s Day is often thought of as a restart button. I’m gonna change on this date. I’m gonna shed my old skin and emerge fresh and...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
BEING VULNERABLE
Vulnerability can be uncomfortable but it’s the direction to joy and love. It’s a strength and not a weakness. It builds empathy and...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
MENTAL HEALTH
We all have a social and mental side. All of them together form our mental health. Mental health is important from the time we are born...