How to Begin Healing After Personal Trauma

How to Begin Healing After Personal Trauma

No one is ever prepared for a tragedy. In fact, most of us go through our lives believing that tragedies happen to other people. When people experience a distressing or life-threatening event, such as a car accident, natural disaster, racist attack, the death of a...
How Pets Improve Our Well-Being

How Pets Improve Our Well-Being

“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling an emptiness we didn’t ever know we had.” – Thom Jones For many of us, our home is just a house unless there is something with four legs and a tail sharing the space with us. Our pets are not only...
Tips for Coping with Social Isolation

Tips for Coping with Social Isolation

Humans are social creatures and most don’t do well in isolation. This is why penitentiaries punish prisoners by putting them into solitary confinement. It causes them great mental anguish. Many of us have felt like prisoners in solitary confinement over the last...
5 Foods to Keep Your Immune System Strong

5 Foods to Keep Your Immune System Strong

As the events of COVID-19 continue to unfold, many of us are focusing on how we can keep ourselves and our families as healthy as possible. While social distancing and increased hand washing can be very effective at stopping the spreading of the Corona virus, it is...