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By: Brian M Murray, MS, IMH “It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.” -Stephen Richards… A woman is married for 18 years has 3 children, active at her church and involved with a women’s small group two times a month. She goes home, sits in front of the computer and logs onto a social network. Looking around she notices all of the...

5 Tips For Parenting Adolescents: Part 4 In part three of the series, we took on the difficult challenge of letting go of control. In this section, the topic is managing our short and long-term goals and how keeping these two in balance affects our approach in parenting. Hold Onto Both Short and Long Term Goals We all have them: short-term goals, usually being what I want to...

Rapid Crisis Response - Strategies for Business and Community Leaders in Guiding their Teams back to Stability How can you keep employees motivated to work after they have experienced a major crisis event? Critical Incident Specialist Dwight Bain offers the following strategies as guidelines for business leaders to help their employees get safely back to work after experiencing a traumatic event....

10 Strategies to Survive a Major Crisis by: Dwight Bain, Crisis Counselor Life is harder than ever, yet why do some people face major life transitions like a traumatic event, major financial stress, death, divorce, health problems, job loss, or business problems with a hopeful attitude of rebuilding and recovery while others just want to hide in fear? Everyone will face times of major life...

I having to make a choice I would definately choose mental fitness. Look at what Stephen Hawking has accomplished. That being said we are responsible for taking care of our bodies as best we can. Physical activity brings oxygen to the brain.

Whenever I hand a prescribed for pain pills to a patient, I inform them, "Keep in mind not to consume any type of alcohol when taking these medications."For years, we in the medical community thought that easy message was surviving. It appears we were wrong.Every 19 moments somebody passes away because of misuse of prescribed medications. In some cases it is due to the fact that they take too...

What is Happiness? Does anybody really know for sure? I'm looking for answers. Today I was padding barefoot through my house, having an imaginary conversation with an imaginary old friend. The scene in my head was this: I am walking through the quad of a university campus, looking gorgeous of course with my silver hair cut into a stunningly attractive pixie. I’m wearing small, bobbly,...