Source: monicore/Pexels In the movie Papillon, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman play a couple of guys trying to escape from prison. In one scene, Steve McQueen’s character, Papillon (which means butterfly in…
New Study: Information Overload for Parents
Source: Finelightarts / Pixabay A new study published in August 2023 looked at “information overload” for parents (translation: when you feel overwhelmed and stressed by the amount of information available to you,…
Bouncing Back: 7 Ways to Get Up When You Fall Down
Source: Rider 1781972/Pixabay Life is filled with more fist-pumping triumphs than soul-destroying setbacks. Yet it’s the latter that disproportionately dominates our minds and our moods. When you mess up or get something…
Could Half the Population Have Mental Health Issues by 75?
A global study co-led by researchers from the University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School and published in The Lancet Psychiatry has found one in two people will develop a mental health…
Are You Having an Existential Crisis?
Source: Eetum / Istock Everything has been figured out, except how to live. –Jean Paul Sartre Source: Eetum / Istock Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher who is considered to be the…
Long Live Travel Fever |
For some, a fear of enclosed spaces presents an obstacle to travel Source: Andrew Stevenson Travel is fraught with potential fears, anxieties, worries and phobias. But how are these distinct from one…
Apple’s New iPhone Can Track Your Mood
Don Kaveen / Unsplash Apple’s new “State of Mind” feature in the Health app is more than a tech update; it’s Apple’s foray into helping us understand our emotions. Beyond tracking physical…
Medicating Normal: A Film Probes the Harm of Psychotropics
Pill and more pills. Source: Zarina Lukash/Shutterstock Do physicians, and now prescribing nurses, need to sign an informed consent form before prescribing a psychoactive medication? In addition to the consent form patients…
Disappointing Summer? 5 Steps for a Better Autumn
Source: 123RF stock image ID:122373997 photog: dtiberio “This hasn’t felt like a real summer,” said Tifani*. “My kids were little during Covid, so this is the first year that they’ve had a…
What Are the Benefits of Listening to Binaural Beats?
Photo by Apostolos Vamvouras on Unsplash Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. Binaural beats are what happens when two equally loud sounds, at just slightly different frequencies (or tones), are presented…