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Category Archives: Living Well
For many of us, spring marks the time to clean out our cluttered closets and garages, but we often don't consider making time to clean out and reflect on our emotional lives. "This Emotional Life," which is a multi-year campaign to foster awareness, connections and solutions around emotional wellness, explores the various means that people [...]
February 28 – March 6, 2010 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. If you are an individual living with an eating disorder (such as anorexia or bulima), a family member, or a friend looking to offer support to a loved one, or a treatment professional looking to help others, check out the National Eating Disorders [...]
February 7, 2010 – 11:21 am
We’ve all heard that our teeth/gums/mouth are all important to our health, but some of us avoid going to the dentist because we are concerned about costs. I recently found an amazing dentist who put me at ease by providing clear information on the costs for services and explanations of which services are necessary [...]
February 5, 2010 – 5:41 am
On the first Friday of February, Americans nationwide wear red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness on National Wear Red Day. This observance provides an opportunity for everyone to unite in this life-saving awareness movement by showing off a favorite red dress, shirt, or tie. The message of the day is: Heart [...]
February 1, 2010 – 5:07 am
This is an ideal time to expand your knowledge of heart health, risk factors and making good lifestyle choices.
Visit the new Heart Health section of our Health Education Answers area and you'll find new screeners, ‘empower tools’ that you can print for your health care team, and other interactives to help you move toward a [...]
January 19, 2010 – 5:16 am
A new series just premiered on PBS this month called This Emotional Life. It is a three-part series that is shining a bright spotlight on our happiness – what it is, what stands in the way and what we're all doing to try to find it. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director of the Center of Mental [...]
January 14, 2010 – 3:59 pm
Time is odd when you are dreaming. Sometimes the whole night goes in a flash. Other times, it seems like hours, but on the clock only a few minutes have passed.
I’ve heard from people recently that dreaming has meanings: that there are books, encyclopedias, therapy sessions, just about everything imaginable, on how to interpret dreams. [...]
January 10, 2010 – 7:34 am
Death is no stranger to people with mental illness. Throughout history, those with mental illness have been neglected, shunned, and even killed because of the belief that they are “bewitched,” “crazy,” “retarded,” etc. Some believed it was even contagious. Excluded from society, without support, they died.
Although times have changed and the recovery movement has come [...]
January 2, 2010 – 5:00 am
January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month. You can recognize this special month by learning about your risk.
If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes then it’s important to pay extra attention to your vision. Recent studies show that those with diabetes are 25 times more likely to develop blindness and other eye diseases.
Diabetes is the leading cause [...]
December 11, 2009 – 5:00 am
One thing at a time and that done best is one of the oldest pieces of advice handed down from generation to generation. This would be ideal if life politely waited for us to get one task done before beginning another or sending another task our way. Unfortunately, life is not ideal all of the [...]
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