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Clean Out the Cobwebs in Your Life and Go Forward with Joyful Resilience
Engage with family and friends. Exercise and move. Get your juices flowing. Remember to take time for you…snuggle with your cat…play with your dog. Use your brain, exert yourself mentally and physically. Build yourself up to prepare for the world after the Delta variant subsides. After all this time with isolation and social distancing, it…
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Can’t Think, Remember, or Make Decisions? What to Do About Brain Fog
Thanks to the Delta variant, the pandemic is not over… yet. Impaired cognition has reached a crisis point for many throughout the world. Elanna walked into the kitchen and laid her hands on the counter top. Why was she here? She looked for her phone, but she was holding it. Well, that was good, at…
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Erase Alcohol Memory Triggers and Empower Your Control Over Drinking
Alcohol Use Disorder is the most common substance use disorder. It causes economic, psychosocial, medical, and personal burdens across the globe that nothing else compares to. During the pandemic, people who’ve lost jobs and income, or been hospitalized with COVID, or who’ve lost loved ones to the vicious virus, have clear and easy-to-identify reasons for…
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The Connection Between a Man’s Violence and His Anxiety: How to Help
Know any men who can flip from mild annoyance to a violent rage in a short minute? Know any women who are wounded and intimidated by a man’s anger? Now if that anger is violent then it’s likely lots of women and children as well are wounded and intimidated by it. Let’s talk about the…
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Interesting Times: How They Help You Overcome and Help Others, Too
Ask yourself…”Do you prefer good times…or interesting times…?” We’ve talked about how to recover after a crisis or trauma so you can get back up. Let’s take another step. Let’s talk about making use of your experiences so you can — and will — move forward. First and foremost, like letting go of the memories…
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Some Wounds ARE Invisible… But There’s HELP… IV Ketamine Treatment Can Crush PTSD. FAST.
June has been National PTSD Awareness Month. And June is nearly over. But PTSD awareness shouldn’t end with June. If you have PTSD, it can go on day after day…after day. Something terrible happened. Over time, it seemed you slowly got past it. You hardly thought about it anymore. Then, in a split second, you’re…
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How to Stay Resilient When Life Changes Knock You Down – Bounce Back!!
Resilience – The power to bounce back emotionally after a major disappointment or event. Here we are. COVID cases have dropped dramatically…right along with COVID deaths. We’re slowly transitioning from the pandemic to what we hope will be post-pandemic. Slowly over time. It won’t be a one day change, but an advancing progressive adjustment to…
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Feeling Lost? How To Move Forward
In this pandemic environment that’s slowing down and losing its teeth, if you just graduated from high school or college, you’re entering the work force at a time when the work force is topsy turvy. And if you’ve been out of work, it can feel even more fickle. But at least they’re hiring again. (Maybe…
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How Do You Disrupt a Fearful Memory? Learn to Erase a Conditioned Fear Response
We’ve been talking lately about how neuroscience researchers explore for possibilities for better medicines. Lately, there’s been more work exploring fear and memories of fearful experiences, and how to erase those memories…or at least make the memories weaker. Those memories play a big role in anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder. We talked about AKT. Now, a…
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What Makes Ketamine Work? This Research Team Seeks Answers
We’ve talked about ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects. Last month we talked about the role of dissociation in ketamine’s antidepressant benefits. Neuroscientists are studying ketamine to find out WHY it provides such rapid antidepressant results. They’re hoping they can determine what exactly ketamine does in the brain, and whether they can isolate that action from the…