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Physical Activity for Better Mental Health

Listen Here:  Today’s guest is James Lewis, an award-winning author who spent twenty years in the Navy and has his Masters in Exercise Physiology. James is passionate about teaching the health benefits of physical activity, from [...]

Podcast: How to Lighten Up When You’re Feeling Down

Listen Here:  Meet Allen Klein, author of The Lighten Up Book, and he shows audiences worldwide how to find humor in their not-so-funny stuff. And that is what he’ll discuss today. How To Lighten Up When You’re Feeling Down How [...]
Lessons I Have Learned From My 20 Year Struggle With Fear And Anxiety

Lessons I Have Learned From My 20 Year Struggle With Fear And Anxiety

Do you currently struggle with fear and anxiety and wish you could talk to someone who can relate to your situation? If so, I dealt with fear and anxiety for over 20 years and here are some lessons I learned during my mental health struggles. 1. [...]

Podcast: Your Mental Health is More Important Than Your Grades

Listen Here: Dr. Kristen Lee Costa, is an award-winning Behavioral Sciences Professor and known as America’s Stress and Burnout Doc and author of Reset: Make the Most of Your Stress. According to the American Psychological Association, [...]
Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe: Confusion To Clarity

Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe: Confusion To Clarity

Confusion dominates American society. Endless choices cause stress, uncertainty and frustration. Americans gobble painkillers, stomach calming pills and sedatives to relax themselves. One look at the local news through the week illustrates bewilderment, [...]

Suicide From A Metaphysical Point Of View

First, forget sin!  From a metaphysical point of view, there’s no such thing. A person’s choices can be poor, and even evil, but as I’ve written about in discussing karma, the ripple effects of such actions create their own reverberating [...]

Podcast: The Legacy of War In The Literary Process

Listen Here: John McAfee is a military veteran and author of three novels: Slow Walk in a Sad Rain, On Rims of Empty Moons, and his latest, Ropes of the Sun. John is dedicated to educating veterans on how writing can help deal with the trauma [...]

How To Overcome The Fear Of Death

Why are so many people afraid of death? Many people are afraid because they do not understand what death is and not knowing what will happen to them scares a lot of people. Understanding what death is crucial on how to overcome your fear of [...]

How I Reduced My Anxieties Of Traveling To A New Place

This summer, I went to the beach for my vacation. I found that getting everything ready and getting to the beach can cause a lot of stress. As a result, here is a list of ideas I came up to reduce the anxieties of traveling to a new place. The [...]

Education Is The Key To Overcoming Your Mental Health Issues

You are just diagnosed with a mental health condition such as depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, addiction, OCD, or some other mental health disorder. The first thing you need to do is to use the services of a professional. The second [...]

A Stroll Down “Memory Lane” Shows Signs Of Wellness For The Brain!

Finally!  I feel absolutely vindicated for being the nostalgic, hopeless romantic that “lives in the past” frequently revisiting those “Good Old Days,” and now I know why! Are you a “Frequent Flier” to thoughts [...]

Cured Or Not Cured

As the calendar pages slowly flipped to the start of each month, the anniversary of my cure from epilepsy approached. June 13, 1990 was the day I was set free from being disabled for 12 years. At last I was what they considered “cured”. Each [...]

4 Ways To Find Your Zen Zone

You deserve zen, slow your life down a bit and get into the zone. Zen is the practice of experiencing a calm peacefulness. A Zen Zone is your mental space where you are flowing with an inner consciousness that is not interrupted with physical [...]

The Horn Honk

For decades horn honking has been used as a way to communicate. Horn honking is an often overlooked form of social communication. Much like smoke signals, Morse code, or email, the  message can be miscommunicated. This social media does not [...]

How I Took Care Of My Pets And My Mental Health Issues

I have struggled with fear and anxiety for over 20 years. There were some weeks I really struggled in doing my daily routines. As an animal lover, I also have some pets and I always worried what would happen to my pets if my mental health got [...]

How I Broke The Vicious Cycle Of Worry And Fear

Taking Exams was the toughest part of being a student at Penn State. Each exam was 35% of your final grade at the end of the semester. This means that if you messed up on one exam you would be lucky if you passed the entire class. If you failed [...]

Why I Didn’t Turn To Drugs And Alcohol To Take Away My Fears

I struggled with fear, anxiety, and stress for over 20 years. There were many times I felt like giving up because my fears and anxieties were stronger than what I could handle. It was difficult getting through a normal day and there were times [...]

When Patience Is The Only Choice…

What do you do? What do you do when all the avenues that you might like to travel down, to take action about in order to resolve a problem or further a goal, are blocked? How do you handle this type of frustration internally, especially after [...]

Invisible Impairments of ADHD

We have traveled a distance along this journey of ADHD. Many more people are diagnosed and treated. So many parents of diagnosed kids are now being diagnosed as they learn about the genetic nature of ADHD and realize that they, too, have always [...]

I’m CRAZY! Can You Help Me Now?

A very disturbing, yet relevant article was in the New Jersey Star-Ledger* recently. Front page, in fact!  I’m very glad about this!  More and more, health care insurance companies are being exposed for the non-medical, organized criminals [...]

Why You Shouldn’t Lose Hope In Dealing With Your Fears And Depression

I struggled with fear and anxiety for over 20 years and there many times I felt like giving up. There were times I was at the end of my rope and I did not know what to do. There were times that my fears, anxieties, and depression were so much [...]

How I Dealt With People Who Did Not Understand My Mental Health Issues

Friends and professionals. Throughout my 20 years of personal experience in dealing with fear and anxiety, I  had a challenging time in getting my friends to understand my  issues with fear, stress, and anxiety. Most of my friends and relatives [...]

The Only Conversation: Planting Yourself In The Present Moment

We are always having conversations, most of the time, with ourselves. Although we have a deep need to speak and be heard, there are few who can really listen and actually hear. Even fewer know how to speak their truth in a way that is uplifting [...]

Is Gun Control An Answer?

Will gun control be the answer to our societal problems? Here is one voice checking in on the issue. I don’t think that choice will, in and of itself, solve the problem.  Just as the “war on drugs” won’t solve the problems of drug addiction, [...]

We Need to “Disarm” Insurance Companies!

The true culprit. We have heard and read “ad nauseum” about gun control, mental health, parenting, who is responsible for such tragedies as the Newtown, CT shootings, blame, blame, blame.  This is insanity.  Video games,  The [...]

The Video Game Dilemma

Video games and isolation. As the families and nation begin the long mourning process of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, we learn more about the killer…I write this in no way to glorify that person, but to educate people as [...]

Sandy Hook Massacre, Another Demand for Social Change!

A senseless tragedy. Nothing is more sad, horrific, senseless and devestating as what happed on Decemebr 14th at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. What in the world causes a 20 year old man to go on a rampage where 20 children [...]

How Far Does “Blue Blood” Go Today?

This has to be the saddest, most obscene tragedy on many, many levels, that the modern world has ever known! Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse caring for Prince William’s wife, Catherine, treating her morning sickness, received a prank phone [...]