Learn more about Suicide Prevention Month: Shining A Light in the Dark (By Abigail Smedly, CCPH)
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and though this can often be an upsetting topic, it’s an important one to address in order to both prevent and heighten awareness efforts. Suicide is a deeply distressing event that can affect individuals from all backgrounds, communities, and cultures, regardless of age or gender. However, with increased awareness, education, and support, we can take…
Learn more about How to Communicate in the COVID-19 Health Crisis (by Lori Weck)
How to Communicate in the COVID-19 Health Crisis (by Lori Weck) Fear, panic, and fortunetelling dread are common when we feel unsafe, physically and emotionally, and the frequent news alerts likely have you feeling unsafe. How do you change unconscious reactive responses when you or your family perceive themselves to be in danger? Try using a skill all pilots use…
Learn more about A Peer’s Perspective: Good from Bad (by Jill Davis)
A Peer’s Perspective: Good from Bad (by Jill Davis) “When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail!” – Ziad K. Abdelnour The older I get the more it becomes crystal clear that life isn’t always going to play out the way I’d like. Oh, to be able to avoid the tragedies and traumas that can pummel my otherwise serene…
Learn more about How to Have Excellent Family Meetings (by Lori Weckbaugh)
How to have excellent family meetings! (by Lori Weckbaugh) You know that something needs to change, because they are ignoring your message or fighting with you or their siblings. Children become willing to respond to messages for change when they are hearing good news We all want to hear what’s right with us rather than what’s wrong Affirmations build self-esteem…
Learn more about A Peer’s Perspective: The Ritual of Should (by Jill Davis)
A Peer’s Perspective: The Ritual of Should (by Jill Davis) “When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself” –Plato I have been looking forward to the long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s book about Derry, Maine and the sinister entity that has lurked forever in the town. Over the years, so the story goes, there is a ritual…
Learn more about Wonder Why It All Blows-Up? (by Lori Weckbaugh)
Wonder Why It All Blows-Up? (by Lori Weckbaugh) Has this happened to you; you’re out for a leaf-viewing drive, everything seemed fine when you left home, yet a few miles down the road your harmless question (where would you like to have lunch?) silence, a grumpy sound in a sarcastic tone— “How would I know where would YOU like to…
Learn more about Can we talk? (by Jill Davis)
Can we talk? It doesn’t take too long to notice that there’s some rough things that go on in life. None of us are immune and all of us have a story to tell. The question that begs asking is this: do you have someone to tell it to? I can remember times where I felt that I had no…
Learn more about Better Than Jail (by Mike Orrill)
Better Than Jail Recently I had a gratifying experience….I went to Drug Court. No, I wasn’t in any trouble; I was invited by a friend in our county’s probation department. According to our friend Wikipedia, “drug courts are problem-solving courts in which the judiciary, prosecution, defense bar, probation, law enforcement, mental health, social service, and treatment communities work together to…