Category: Mental Health

  • Your Health Matters: Celebrating Alzheimer’s Awareness Month

    By C. Stone  November 2017 – Contributor to Empower Behavioral Health Did you know November is National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Awareness Month? This month is extremely important, as a 2016 study showed that over 5.5 million Americans of all ages are living with this debilitating disease, and someone develops it every 66 seconds. Alzheimer’s is also…

  • Your Health Matters : The Healing Power of Friendships

    Social connections can help you stay healthier and happier throughout life By Linda Melone  Maintaining friendships, new and old, is an essential part of emotional wellness, but it’s also important for your continued physical health as you age, experts say. When friends fade from your life, live at a greater distance, or die, you are more likely…

  • Your Health Matters: 5 Ways Reading Improves Your Health

    Booktalk November 5th, 2015 Book lovers know there’s no feeling like getting lost in a great book. Page after page seems to fly by as you get more and more entrenched in the plot and character development. It’s almost as if you’re in the scenes and participating in the outcome.What you may not realize, however, is…

  • Is Hitting the Snooze Button Bad for You?

    Published on Oct 03, 2017 by Alex Mitchell   Do you have an “as needed” relationship with your Snooze Button? Is it one of those relationships that every now and then, you call in a favor and it lets you get in a few extra minutes on Monday morning when you were up too late watching Game of…

  • How Power Changes People – the Paradox of Power

    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POWER First there was Bill Cosby’s sexual harassment charges, then the Uber Crisis and CEO Travis Kalanick’s resignation amid an investor revolt and just last month, movie mogul  Harvey Weinstein was ousted from Miramax by his own board of directors in light of dozens of sexual harassment allegations. Some of these behaviours…