For Mental Health Awareness Week, NIMH partnered with the Embassy of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to host a panel discussion…
Posts published in December 2017
If you are caring for an elderly family member, you are not alone. A 2015 report by National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP (2015) shows more…
I’ve been listening to Karla McLaren’s The Language of Emotions. One of the jewels from the program is discovering how each of our emotions have…
If you have struggled with an eating disorder like anorexia, you most-likely know how to plan. By extracting a very basic human need, the brain…
According to our favorite holiday movies and books we should be serene, happy and peaceful throughout the holidays. This is rarely the case, however, for…
“We have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.” – Giuliana Rancic I don’t know about most people, but I’m an inveterate list-maker. I…
We called our grandmother on my mother’s side “Nana.” Nana was a widow for most of my life. Back in 1965, my grandfather died when…
Parents talk to their kids a lot. In a single day, they can issue a multitude of instructions, orders and requests as they converse with…
Even the smallest compassionate gestures can have significant impact. A kind act can do everything from make someone smile to turn their day around to…