Category: Mental Health

8 Health Tips to Help You Live Your Best (Aging) Life

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal medicine physician, a work-life integration researcher, and an international expert on the mind-body-spirit connection. She is also an international speaker and bestselling author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity.

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Health & Aging:

We’re all aging.

Tomorrow you will be older than you are today. It’s sad but true. And while we can’t do anything to reverse this aging process, we can adopt a lifestyle now that will set us up for success later.

As we grow, we should ask ourselves, “What would my future self want me to be doing right now? What wouldn’t they want me to be doing?”

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Psychological Fitness: Adapting to the Accelerating Work & Life Pace

Available for Interviews:  Dr. Karen Doll

Karen Doll, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist, professional coach, and the author of the forthcoming book, Building Psychological Fitness: How High Performers Achieve With Ease.

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Adapting to the Accelerating Work & Life Pace:

    • The state of the workplace now is described as VUCA-volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. 
    • We are living in an unstable time of rapid change, uncertainty, confusion, and the reality that much of it we can’t control.
    • This makes it challenging to plan, prepare, or anticipate the consequences of our actions; therefore, it generates fear. Humans do not like feeling as though they have control.

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October 10th Is World Mental Health Day! 

Available for Interviews:  Nadine Levitt

Nadine Levitt is an education advocate, speaker, and the CEO & Founder of WURRLYedu, an educational technology platform. Nadine specializes in the social-emotional curriculum (SEL), and she is also the author of the children’s book, My Mama Says Inside Me Lives a Village. 

What Nadine Levitt can say about Mental Health:

As we enter the autumn season, it’s the perfect time to sit back and reflect on the role of emotions in the mental health crisis:

      • When we speak about mental health, we are talking about our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. So nourishing our mental health is crucial, since it affects every aspect of our life:

– how we think, feel, and act
– how we build and maintain relationships
– it can even affect our physical health

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What to Know Before Starting Therapy

Available for Interviews: Dr. Colleen Cira

Colleen Cira, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women and Trauma and has worked with hundreds of people struggling with mental health issues.

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Finding a Therapist:

Not surprisingly, mental health concerns are at an all-time high due to the pandemic. Here are some tips about starting therapy that the public can benefit from knowing:

    • There are many different types of therapists and levels of training: LSW’s, LCP’s, LSCW’s, LCPC’s, Psy.D. and Ph.D.  It’s important to understand what these things mean and how they are different. Only then can you figure out what’s best for you.* Continue reading “What to Know Before Starting Therapy”

How to End Career Fatigue When Working From Home

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal medicine physician, a work-life integration researcher, and an international expert on mind-body-spirit connection. She is also an international speaker and bestselling author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity.

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How to End Career Fatigue When Working From Home:

  • Career fatigue is a precursor to burnout. It is characterized by a growing indifference about the work you do, a drop in productivity, and an increase in work-related stress. When working from home, the boundary lines between your personal and professional life can get blurry leading to more exhaustion.

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How to Build More Human Connection When Craving It the Most

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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on Building Deeper, Authentic Connections With People: 

After a tumultuous year of COVID and social distancing, it looked like we were reaching the light at the end of the tunnel as restrictions started to loosen up, but unfortunately, it didn’t last long as the new delta variant is spreading rapidly. 

People might be craving human connection more than ever and it is a vital part of our sense of wellbeing.  We need a tribe we can call our own or a support system where we can have that sense of belongingness. Having people we can talk to about anything that bothers us—relationship problems, health concerns, or maybe as simple as to what to have for dinner helps build our resilience to get through any challenge.

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5 Benefits of Probiotics for Overall Health

Available for Interviews: Dr. Eldred Taylor

Dr. Taylor is a leader in the hormone industry and is passionate about helping people by using a holistic functional medicine approach in treatment.

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The Benefits of Probiotics:

More and more studies show that the balance or imbalance of bacteria in your digestive system is linked to overall health and disease. An imbalance means there are too many bad bacteria and not enough good bacteria. It can happen due to illness, medication such as antibiotics, poor diet, and more.

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Never Ignore These 4 Seemly Small Symptoms

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal medicine physician, a work-life integration researcher, and an international expert on the mind-body-spirit connection. She is also an international speaker and bestselling author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity.

Dr. Dalton-Smith was recently published in Shape Magazine on how to feel less sleep-deprived and more rejuvenized when we wake up in the morning. Here’s another story angle on the topic.

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Symptoms That Should Not Be Ignored:

Your health, both physical and mental, is one of the most valuable things that you have. With that in mind, be sure not to ignore the symptoms listed below. Read on to find out what they are. . .

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Practical Advice for Building Resilience During Times of Stress

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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on Ways to Build Resilience:

      •  Find peer support groups. Support groups help to promote a sense of community and connection so one doesn’t feel so alone in their struggles. 
      •  Stop using alcohol or drugs as a coping mechanism. These substances are avoidant and numbing strategies that won’t get to the root cause of the problem.

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5 Reasons Why Faith Is Essential During a Health Crisis

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal medicine physician, a work-life integration researcher, and an international expert on mind-body-spirit connection. She is also an international speaker and bestselling author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity.

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Faith & Crisis:

Covid-19 has negatively impacted people around the globe in various ways. Job losses, income cuts, homelessness, illness, and death are just some of the many challenges the pandemic has yielded. There’s also a corresponding rise in depression, anxiety, stress, and fatigue which can lead to various health conditions, including stroke, high blood pressure, and chronic pain. The one aspect that remains steady throughout the chaos and uncertainty is faith.

Here are 5 reasons why faith is essential during this health crisis:

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