You are amazingly resilient. You can experience immense stress and, usually, your nervous system keeps everything together and you moving forward. In fact, you’re so resilient that often you don’t even recognize the amount of stress you’re under, or for…
There are many affirmations, positive talks, YouTube links and spiritual texts out there that one can use to uplift or become positive, that can assist in changing your state, for a moment or for a few days. I enjoy using…
Tension and stress accumulate in all of us simply from living an everyday life. Tension can also build up from prolonged stressful situations or traumatic life experiences, such as natural disasters or social or domestic violence. Managing this stress by…
Every year on Veterans Day we celebrate the contributions that our brothers and sisters in the military have made to our society. However, there’s another discussion that might even supersede the celebration: How we help veterans manage their experiences (and,…
According to Congressman Tim Ryan in his book A Mindful Nation, "When people have higher working memory capacity they can pay better attention, can solve problems more readily, and have more fluid intelligence--they use facts rather than just know them. Those…
