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Sharing – New Study: Sleep Is Literally a Deep Clean for Your Brain
Having trouble with stress and anxiety? The suggested solutions often require adding even more to our to-do list. Meditate, practice mindfulness, do acts of self-care, etc. But we often forget that maybe the most important act of self-care is getting enough sleep.
Don’t even get me started on the fitness industry and the number of people who talk about “earning your food/sleep” through exercise. Argh!
This study would indicate that sleep is not something you want to mess with. Simply getting enough would help us with our mental “junk”. No, it won’t cure depression or eliminate symptoms of bipolar, or any of the other things that some of your friends will, unfortunately, suggest, but it does serve a core function for the healthy functioning of your brain, and that is certainly one place to start making things better, no?
Link – Two child sex offenders explain how they picked their targets
Lots of good information in this article, about how they weren’t who you would suspect, they worked to gain the trust of a child by minimizing the other adults in their lives, especially their parents, and used technology to communicate because parents weren’t savvy enough to keep track of how their kids used technology. I’m…
Link – Children more likely to report sexual abuse if they know a trusted adult
This quote is about kids who might tell someone at school, but I think the idea has much wider applicability. “Children who have been abused or who are survivors of abuse would definitely benefit from having an adult in the school that they can go to and talk to. Someone that they can confide in,…
Link – Normal Mental Health: How Does Chasing It Create Stigma?
This is a good reminder – “When it comes to mental health, normality is a myth that does little to provide a path to long-term recovery. Instead, it serves as a standard we measure ourselves against, consistently finding that we come up short in comparison.” Often I see folks dealing with mental health or abuse…