It’s been seven months since living in our coronavirus reality. Activities and normal ways of living are modified or all together blocked for many of us as we continue to ride our personal waves of angst, fear...
Category - Emotional Health, Etc.
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Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Identify Gaslighting Then Get the Hell Out
“Gaslighting” is a great word because it so vividly describes the feeling one has when on the receiving end. It’s as if there is a match repeatedly being struck under you but then blown out to leave...
From Pain to Empowerment: Rethinking Mental Health
I recently was invited to partner with Samantha Foster, President of the nonprofit organzation, Rethink Mental Health Incorporated. She was looking for mental health advocates to help support her in her mission to...
Creating Normalcy with a Chronic Disease During Covid-19
Christine Fallabel, living with type 1 diabetes since 2000, shares her thoughts about managing this chronic disease during the pandemic, especially with concerns around it making her higher risk with COVID-19. These...
COVID-19 Mental Health Impact on Families
We may be in it for the long haul with our unwelcome guest, COVID-19. No one knows much about anything regarding how this pans out but what we do know if there has been a massive impact of families across the globe as...
Social Distancing: How to Keep Upbeat While Apart
Social distancing is becoming the norm as weeks spill into months, depending where you are. We are all making adaptations to our lives. Social norms have been turned upside down as we wait inside. School, exercise...
Ladies, How About This for Valentines Day?
Whether you plan to shower love on a sweetie, your friends, enjoy your children’s experience with Valentines Day or none of the above, how about adding a loving focus on YOU? Self-care is self-love. Self-care is...
Slow Down for Resilience
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster, shares one exercise from her book for improved resilience and well being. On my way...
Linda Graham, MFT
Emotional and Relationship Health During Community Crisis
In Northern California, we have had three years in a row of major fires during October not only causing massive destruction but impacting large areas surrounding the actual fires by unhealthy air quality as smoke...
Breaking up with Alcohol and Stepping into a Clear Life
Cecily Mak shares her personal journey and paradigm shift around the role of alcohol in her life. “Whatever you do, don’t tell people you don’t drink. They’ll think you’re weird.” Last night I attended an international...
Cecily Mak