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When Injury Disrupts Exercise: Five Ways to Reduce Stress
There is considerable evidence that exercise benefits our mental health. Research suggests that in addition to improving memory, lifting mood, moderating depression, and reducing attention fatigue,...
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Surviving and Succeeding in Face of Uncertainty: Six Strategies
Events like the Boston Marathon Bombing, Hurricane Sandy’s Devastation, The Newtown CT School Shooting, and now the deadly earthquake in Nepal echo earlier events and assaults us with the uncertainties...
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The Ohio Kidnapping Case:The Moral Injury of Witnessing Atrocity
In the past two weeks it has been difficult to be anywhere without reading or hearing about the Ohio Kidnapping, 10 year captivity, sexual abuse, torture and beatings causing miscarriages to three...
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Superstitions: Coping with Uncertainty
Are you superstitious? Do you knock on wood? Wear a lucky jersey when your favorite team plays? Believe deaths occur in three’s or use your horoscope as a life guide? If so, you are not alone. It may...
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Missing a Loved One on Thanksgiving: A Way of Grieving
Thanksgiving, which is celebrated in this country across cultures, religions, ethnicity, geography and socio-economic levels, is an emotional mile marker. It brings to the table and to the mind and...
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Developing a Post-Trauma Identity-Who Am I Now?
We are the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. Traumatic events disrupt out story and assault our sense of self. They leave us asking: Who am I if I can’t be a cop, a surgeon, a provider? How can...
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Protect the Children: Change the Legacy of Fear and Violence
In the face of the shooting of two black men by police officers on July 5th and 6th, and the sniper attack on July 7th that killed 5 police officers and wounded 7 others including 2 civilians, most...
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Family Sharing vs. Family Secrets
When it comes to families, it is not what happens that levels the greatest blow-it’s not talking about what happens. Be it loss, traumatic events, or illness etc., research suggests that stress...
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Separated Children Reunited with Parents: Understanding and Easing Reactions
There are few parents who have been separated from their children who don’t visualize and anticipate scenes of joyous reunion. While that may be possible in some cases, the ages and circumstances of...
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Can Human Goodness Sustain in the Face of Hate and Killing?
We know that the answer is yes. We also know that it is often hard to see this in an atmosphere of divisiveness, projected evil, hate, prejudice, fear and killing. In a matter of days this country has...
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