I don’t read a lot of romance novels, but Fiona’s Fling by Anna Fondant (aka Paula of Light Motifs II) is written by a blogging friend, so off to the races! I found this book to be a refreshing change compared to many of the other books I’ve read in the same genre. The characters were […]
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NIMBYism is a fascinating phenomenon. NIMBYs, who think that something is okay as long as it’s Not In My BackYard, cover discrimination with a thin veneer of civility and acceptability. Among the many manifestations of this is with regards to social housing, including supported housing for people with mental illness. The NIMBY arguments NIMBYs’ arguments
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My Life in Lists by Nicole Barlettano is an illustrated journal full of list prompts. The book is sectioned into past, present, and future-oriented lists. There is a page for each prompt and accompanying lists, and there are 100 lists in the book. There are also some blank illustrated pages at the back of the book
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In this emerging blogger post, Kim of Broken Hearted Grace writes about life after the loss of her son. People often ask how I do it, how do I cope after losing my oldest son at age 34? How do I go on while dealing with my second born son being addicted to drugs for
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is the DARVO response to sexual assault allegations. DARVO is an acronym to describe a pattern of responses that sexual offenders may display when faced with accountability for their actions. Before getting into what DARVO stands for, I’ll
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In this emerging blogger post, Amy E. Russo writes about getting weekly therapy for bipolar disorder. >If you’re looking for me on Tuesday mornings, you can always find me rolling up to my therapist’s office, iced coffee in hand, 10 minutes early, always. Like clockwork, every week, that is where I’ll be. I’ve been going
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is factitious disorder imposed on another, also known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy. While Munchausen by proxy is likely the name that’s most recognizable, the name for the disorder in the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical
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Mindfulness for Insomnia by Catherine Polan Orzech and William H. Moorcroft lays out a day-by-day four-week meditation program to facilitate sleep. I’ll start off by saying that I read the book because I was curious about the method, but I didn’t actually practice it myself. Aside from the sleep education in the first part of
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When any mental health professional is first getting started in their career, one of the things they need to do is find their therapeutic voice. That therapeutic voice can vary a lot from one professional to another, and there’s a tendency to settle into and get very comfortable with it. Some people will use more
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In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is cognitive bias. Do you think you’re biased? Well, your brain certainly is. A cognitive bias is a type of shortcut your brain takes to make tasks easier and more automatic. Sometimes that’s helpful, but often it’s not,
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