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...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Living in a Time of Threat
If you would have been asked a year ago if you were concerned about a global pandemic grinding life as you know it to a halt, you probably would have raised your eyebrows and laughed. There is no doubt that the world...
9 Mental Health Resources for the Black Community
We’re suffering a collective trauma, but members of the Black community, who are already inherently raised alongside that trauma, are getting hit the hardest. While mental health resources have historically been out of...
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...
Trauma and Psychological Risks of the Pandemic
We are in unprecedented times. The impact of the pandemic is significant on multiple levels, including psychological, as it contradicts what is familiar and expected in the world leading to confusion and uncertainty. ...
Same Storm, Different Boats but We All Have This
The mental health crisis unfolding against the back drop of the pandemic is a story of its own. The worries of people are vast and steeped with layers of anxiety, numbness, stress, lack of control and the unknown. ...
Powerful Tools to Recover Your Resilience
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty and Even Disaster, explores ways to tap into your own resilience to be able to cope with the most...
Linda Graham, MFT
We’re All Doing This During the Pandemic
Does your emotional status depend on the day, hour or possibly minute? You are not alone. If you’re like me, you’ve noticed an increase in online content around COVID19 and psychological health. Because...
How Will You Be Different?
As the weeks cascade into months of avoidance of our human kind to save lives, new norms are settling in. How strange to think that not so long ago seeing people with their faces covered by masks in the grocery store...
