When people deal with loss, I am often asked, what is the difference between sorrow and clinical depression? The difference matters because it has implications for our emotional, spiritual and physical health. Nearly 2.5 million Americans die each year. Many people are left behind grieving their losses.
How we grieve is important. The response to loss…
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You may not realize that even though you can’t always control your initial reaction to fear, you can control your response to perceived fear. The biochemical reaction to fear lasts about 90 seconds, after that you have a choice. But you have to identify what you are fearful of to know how to stop ongoing fear.
Fear is a chain reaction in the…
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I was fascinated with a recent documentary series in which the producers followed 7 adults, ages 21 to 26, as they posed as students at Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas, during the spring 2017 semester. The series aired on A &E and was entitled, Under Cover High. The idea was to…
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Parents, stay up to date. There is a new device called the Juul that doesn’t look like an e-cigarette but is. It is a vaping device. You might see it and not know that it is not a USB drive for your teen’s computer. The device looks like a USB drive, is easy to use without being detected because the vapor can be hidden and the smell is not like cigarettes….
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I watched the Duke-North Carolina basketball game last night. Full disclosure, I am an avid Duke fan and have followed Duke basketball for years. But last night, when a Flagrant 1 foul was called on Grayson Allen, it left me once again saddened by the hate people spewed on social media.
The foul call was controversial–some feel it was a typical foul, others like the referees, thought it was flagrant; although I wondered how past history with Grayson shaped the call. Either way, whatever…
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