Stigma
Early cultures viewed mental illness as a form of religious punishment, possession or personal weakness. The mentally ill were often viewed as violent or unpredictable and the misguided perceptions about causes of mental illness often led to fear and discrimination. […]
Learn MoreSurviving Grief Overload
Grief is a journey that we will travel eventually in our lifetimes. The loss of a family member or friend, changes in our own physical health or to those of our loved ones as well as the ambiguous losses of […]
Learn MoreChanging Your Mood and Life By Writing
Last year, an article in the Star Tribune on January 19th caught my eye. As someone who has long kept personal diaries, I often wondered if the negative beliefs I had written about myself over those agonizing junior and high […]
Learn MoreChange…Be in Charge of the Process
If you are reading this, chances are either you or someone you know is involved in . This means that change is somewhere on your radar. Change can be a scary thing. We are indeed creatures of habit, where the […]
Learn MoreWhy? When? How?
Why do we hear more about tragedies, trauma and crisis on an every day, unrelenting basis? When will we begin to become calloused and indifferent to the sadness and the emotional pain? How can we change the tide? For help […]
Learn More“We have 4 seasons, we just don’t know which order we get them”
One of the greatest weather comments was the one above, said to me once by a Lund’s employee that helped me with my groceries. Our Minnesota weather makes for good conversations. We abhor it, dread it, anticipate it, glory in […]
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