by Diana | Oct 6, 2016 | Good Mental Health
Tonight, Floridians from West Palm Beach to Jacksonville are bracing for a hundred year storm. Weather reports are projecting that Hurricane Matthew, a powerful category 4 hurricane, will rake the Atlantic coast over the course of three days leaving a trail of...
by Diana | Sep 20, 2016 | Good Mental Health
One of the hardest things about healing from past trauma and emotional pain is allowing ourselves to feel the feelings associated with the trauma. Our complex human minds have developed extremely clever ways to compartmentalize trauma so that we can carry on about our...
by Diana | Aug 30, 2016 | Good Mental Health
I was on an airplane, somewhere over Colorado, when I first heard of Kathryn Harrison. I had downloaded a few podcasts to listen to while on the flight, one of them being this one from Dear Sugar Radio. It was during this podcast that the Sugars called the author of...
by Diana | Aug 24, 2016 | Good Mental Health
Energy is contagious. As parents, we can program a child’s mind in much the same way we can program a computer. Our ideas, values, and ingrained ways of thinking- in other words, our own “programs”- effortlessly download onto their young minds. What...
by Diana | Aug 15, 2016 | Good Mental Health
* * * I just watched the documentary “Chosen,” released by Shared Hope International. I didn’t fully understand what “human trafficking” or “child sex trafficking” was before watching this video today. It is an...
by Diana | Aug 2, 2016 | Good Mental Health
I spent a good portion of my life circling the drain. It felt like I was swimming against the swirl, caught in the current of the flush. No matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to break free. I couldn’t get out of the never-ending struggle to keep my head above...