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How to Be Your Own Therapist: A Step-By-Step Guide to Taking Back Your Life

How to Be Your Own Therapist: A Step-By-Step Guide to Taking Back Your Life

How to Be Your Own Therapist provides tools to replace unhealthy behaviors with actions for satisfaction and success.

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The Lawn You Love Is Killing Your Mental Health By Your Pesticide Use

Weeds and bugs are only two of the things you're killing because the most important thing you don’t think about is your mental health.

Jun 17, 2023

The Lawn You Love Is Killing Your Mental Health By Your Pesticide Use

Jun 17, 2023

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Doing Nothing, Including No 10K Steps, Is Good for Mental Health

Too often, we adhere to mandated wellness tips, some of which are baseless, to help maintain our mental and creative abilities. Forget much…

Jun 20, 2023

Doing Nothing, Including No 10K Steps, Is Good for Mental Health

Jun 20, 2023

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The Myth of the Gospel of 10,000 Steps Daily for Health

Myths abound in wellness, and the only way to handle them is by refuting them with science. This is one of the prevalent ones, so here…

Jun 21, 2023

The Myth of the Gospel of 10,000 Steps Daily for Health

Jun 21, 2023

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Grieve As You Must, and Break Free of Believing in the “Steps”

Too many therapists and their patients have been led to believe there’s a formula for grieving and that everyone must process the five…

Jun 25, 2023

Grieve As You Must, and Break Free of Believing in the “Steps”

Jun 25, 2023

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The “Evil” Therapist: Protecting yourself from those who might harm you

“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Dostoevsky

Sep 27, 2019

The “Evil” Therapist: Protecting yourself from those who might harm you

Sep 27, 2019

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The Nose May Determine Why Your Cognition Declines

Working on a national protocol for a new medication for Alzheimer's disease allowed me an opportunity to understand some of the pathology…

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The Nose May Determine Why Your Cognition Declines

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

Even professionals may be deceiving themselves and may not be in touch with their prejudices regarding the disabled.

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

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Nightmare Nights, Aging Days: How They Cause Damage

Sleep for many of us can be a reward, an escape, or a dread, and each of them has been studied by researchers attempting to tease out the…

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Nightmare Nights, Aging Days: How They Cause Damage

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Skinnier, Sicker? Weight-Loss Meds Raise Concerns

These drugs don't advertise or emphasize their physical side effects, but people are starting to notice them.

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Skinnier, Sicker? Weight-Loss Meds Raise Concerns

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Cancer or Cognition: Where Does Nicotine Lie and Why the Controversy?

Cherry-picking research specifics has always been the bane of researchers, authors, and corporations, and when we consider nicotine, the…

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Cancer or Cognition: Where Does Nicotine Lie and Why the Controversy?

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Dr. Patricia Farrell

Dr. Patricia Farrell

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Dr. Farrell is a psychologist, consultant, author, and member of SAG/AFTRA, interested in flash fiction writing and health (https://tinyurl.com/bdz45s8b).

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