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- May 18
- 1 min
MEN CAN SAY NO, TOO
Mindy Lawrence Although women are more susceptible to sexual abuse, a man can also face the same treatment by a woman. Someone can follow...

- 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 9
- 1 min
MENTAL HEALTH: SHADOW WORK
Mindy Lawrence The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung was the first to talk about the “shadow self.” He defined the 'shadow' as the side of...

- May 4
- 1 min
MENTAL HEALTH AND NAOMI JUDD
Mindy Lawrence On April 30, 2022, Naomi Judd, half of the country singing duo The Judds, took her life. For years she had been fighting...

- 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 29
- 1 min
Emotional Detachment: Dissociative Identity Disorder
ental health problems, Mindy Lawrence Dissociative identity disorder was once called Multiple Personality Disorder – or having multiple...

- Apr 25
- 1 min
Depression and Shopping
Mindy Lawrence When I was going through a divorce many years ago, I had no idea how depressed I was. I bought something to make me feel...

- 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...

- Apr 20
- 1 min
ADVERTISING AND DEPRESSION
Mindy Lawrence Advertising entices people to buy items that they may or may not need. Ads show how much better someone’s life will...

- Apr 15
- 3 min
THERAPY DOGS AND MENTAL HEALTH
By Mindy Lawrence People who suffer from anxiety often seek a resource to help them with emotional support. An emotional support animal...

- Apr 8
- 1 min
UNHAPPINESS AND HOW TO COPE
Mindy Lawrence Unhappiness is bound up in so many other issues—the world situation, workplace woes, a person’s problems at home,...

- Apr 4
- 2 min
MENTAL HEALTH: RECOVERING FROM GRIEF
Mindy Lawrence This is the anniversary of a dear friend’s death 26 years ago. I don’t remember him with the same pain I had then, but I...

- Apr 1
- 2 min
Hoarding Disorder
Mindy Lawrence When you think of hoarding, you may think of grandma’s 400 coffee cups or your friend’s 1500 books, but hoarding and...

- Mar 30
- 1 min
Dealing with Medical Gaslighting
By Mindy Lawrence If your doctor tells you that you aren’t really sick, that it’s in your head, or if you’d just lose weight, you’d be...

- Mar 18
- 1 min
SEXUAL ASSAULT: LOCKER ROOM TALK
By Mindy Lawrence As long as I can remember, I‘ve heard the phrase “locker room talk.” It’s supposedly the rough and tumble banter that...

- Mar 11
- 2 min
Sexual Assault: Rape Kits and the Backlog
By Mindy Lawrence Less than every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. The trauma from the event makes it...

- Mar 9
- 1 min
SEXUAL ASSAULT: CONSENT
By Mindy Lawrence Sexual consent is an important part of sexual relations. Getting and giving permission to have sex with someone, or...

- Mar 8
- 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...