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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.

2004

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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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Cancer Patient Caregivers Are Being Forgotten in Suicide Risk

Patients, upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, experience such devastation that they contemplate suicide, and it brings untreated suffering…

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Cancer Patient Caregivers Are Being Forgotten in Suicide Risk

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10-Year-Old Killers Are Responsible for Their Actions?

Should society hold children who murder accountable for such acts?

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10-Year-Old Killers Are Responsible for Their Actions?

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Hearing Colors or the Ability to Taste Sound Isn’t Psychotic, But It’s Rare

Few have a rare disorder that turns our senses around as these individuals experience something few ever do, and we question their sanity.

Sep 1

Hearing Colors or the Ability to Taste Sound Isn’t Psychotic, But It’s Rare

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Can We Catch Up on Sleep on Weekends and Benefit From It?

Working all week and getting up early takes a toll on us and our sleep, but research is looking at sleeping-in on weekends through a new…

Aug 30

Can We Catch Up on Sleep on Weekends and Benefit From It?

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Parental Stress Has a Serious Impact on Children

Children's mental health and development rely on how parents handle their stress and parental duties.

Aug 29

Parental Stress Has a Serious Impact on Children

Aug 29

Dr. Patricia Farrell

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Dr. Farrell is a psychologist, consultant, author, and member of SAG/AFTRA, interested in flash fiction writing (http://bitly.ws/S94e) and health.

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