mental health

Very Much Alive, Part 5
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Very Much Alive, Part 5

This post is part of a series of journal entries written throughout my mother’s two-and-a-half-year experience with cancer. You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.  Navigating Life After Death After we scattered my mom’s ashes, I returned home to the Miami area to resume caring for my 4-year-old and…

Is This Our Great Depression?
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Is This Our Great Depression?

  The Great Depression lasted 10 years. A decade. Babies were born and spent their formative years in that struggle. That determined how the Greatest Generation lived the rest of their lives, raised their children, invested, voted, impacted society, and lived their true purposes…or not.  We’ve been living in the COVID-19 pandemic for two years…

Create a Backyard Oasis for Improved Mental Health
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Create a Backyard Oasis for Improved Mental Health

I’m a huge advocate of soaking up all things nature whenever things feel overwhelming or out-of-control. And research agrees with me, from Ingrid Fetell Lee’s concept of joyspotting to the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing. Often, if we live in an urban or suburban setting, we think nature is inaccessible…even when it’s right…