Suzanne Kane
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How COVID-19 Harms Our Mental Well-Being – And What to Do About It
It's been months since America first learned of the potentially deadly virus we've come to know as COVID-19 or coronavirus. After months of stringent lockdown → Read More
Why Deep Breathing Helps Calm Anxiety
As someone whose friends and family know I've endured a number of heartbreaking challenges and physical and emotional difficulties, I'm often asked how I cope with anxiety. They see my etern → Read More
How to Reassure Your Kids When You Go Back to Work After COVID-19
When you get the call or email that your employer wants you to return to work during the country's gradual re-opening after the COVID-19 pandemic, it's likely you'll experience conflicting emotions. → Read More
How to Avoid Triggering Anxiety Through Excessive Home Cleaning for COVID-19
Long after most people have returned to work, even with social distancing, wearing masks, taking extreme care to wash hands rigorously and often, avoiding → Read More
Here's What Loneliness Can Do to You During COVID-19
Loneliness is never easy to endure, yet during times of mandatory social isolation and distancing, such as millions of Americans are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be particularly damaging. → Read More
How People are Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview with Dr. Anita-Gadhia Smith
Each person's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic is unique. There are, however, some overriding themes and key takeaways on coping, mental health aspects, → Read More
Why Maintaining a Schedule During COVID-19 is Important for Your Mental Health
In a time of considerable anxiety and personal disruption, there's not a lot individuals can do to change elements out of their control. Government mandates to → Read More
What We Are Learning About Ourselves from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Some say that life will never be the same again, that we'll forever be haunted by the tragic loss of life, untold suffering, mental anguish, diminished economic → Read More
How to Stop Fear from Holding You Back During Troubling Times
Living life in fear is no way to live, no matter what is going on in the world. Without a doubt, these are troubling times, filled with uncertainty, sadness, perhaps physical pain as well. Much of → Read More
When Will You Know You Are Ready for Treatment?
While some people who've become addicted to alcohol and drugs have to hit rock bottom before they're ready to accept treatment, most realize or can be convinced of the need to get profession → Read More
How to Recognize and Change Toxic Behavioral Patterns
Patterns generally involve repetitive action, a task or behavior engaged in frequently, often without giving it much thought. Much daily behavior is fairly automatic, an activity done so many times → Read More
The Extraordinary Power of Perseverance: Never Give In — Or Give Up
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good → Read More
This Day Can Change Your Life
"One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is three or four big days that change everything." - Beverly Donofrio Singular moments are → Read More
Why Good Mental Health Is Important and How to Promote It
It might seem self-evident, yet evidently everyone doesn't recognize the importance of good mental health. Beyond the fact that maintaining good mental health → Read More
Finding Resilience in the Midst of Challenges
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." – David Brinkley One thing is certain, and that is that each → Read More
Loneliness Erodes Your Mental Health: How You Can Get Past This Toxic Emotion
"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact." – Martha Beck Loneliness is one of the most miserable feelings to experience. Being alone, however, doesn't neces → Read More
Why It's Important to Your Mental Health to Deal Constructively with Self-Doubt
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure… We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." → Read More
Meaningful Results from Meditation Research
What do we really know about meditation, other than the fact that the practice is touted for its apparent ability to help relaxation, ease stress, and quiet the → Read More
Concerning Findings About Cannabis Use
While recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states as of November 2019, more states gravitating toward legalizing the recreational use of the substance, and 33 → Read More
How Gratitude Can Affect Your Physical and Psychological Well-Being
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life… makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." – Melodie Beattie Saying thank-you → Read More