Mental Health

In this climate of physical distancing over the last few weeks, I’ve made a deliberate effort to talk more with people.  To talk with colleagues and members, family, neighbours, good friends, and particularly enjoyably, some old friends who I rarely find time to call. Not email them, not text them, …

A hectic lifestyle can mean you don’t always eat as well as you should. But there are some simple additions to your diet that can make all the difference In our usual lives, many of us turn to caffeine and fast food to give us the energy we need to …

The modern day cauldron … and lunch Today I love making tax filing progress by acquiring a tax filing software package. I love that this brings a sense of calm to my household and calm is good in these interesting times. I love calm when it suddenly descends or when …

How to Stay on Track With Goals The coronavirus has thrown the world into uncharted waters. The widespread impact of COVID-19 has forced everyone to find some way to navigate through unique and unprecedented circumstances. During these difficult times, athletes are also facing distinctive challenges due to the COVID-19 virus. …

As uncomfortable as anxiety can be, we all need a little bit of anxiety to motivate us to meet our deadlines and to survive.  However, when our anxiety becomes too big, we can feel like we are spinning out of control.  It might be hard to focus and be efficient because it …

Since 1997, more than 100,000 Parkinson’s Disease patients have been treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical technique that involves the implantation of ultra-thin wire electrodes. The implanted device, sometimes referred to as a ‘brain pacemaker’, delivers electrical pulses to a structure called the subthalamic nucleus, located near the …

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A new German study finds that college students struggle to critically assess information from the Internet and are often influenced by unreliable sources. For the study, researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Goethe University Frankfurt administered the Critical Online Reasoning Assessment (CORA) to students from various disciplines such …

Everywhere you look there are more and more examples of people cooperating and contributing to the collective effort. This Article was first published onSource link . We are just re-posting and re-sharing from their RSS feed. Mental Health Updates

Reading will almost always be my solace in life, but right now it’s even more than that. From us being people who might travel the length and breadth of the country, or travel thousands of miles globally – the world being our oyster – we’ve transgressed to measuring and living …