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Sharing – Love live music? Here’s how it is secretly boosting your mental health
ByMikeM March 18, 2025July 12, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Last year, my wife and I decided our mantra would be “buy the ticket, go to the show” as often as possible. This year, we saw our first show last week and have been busy making plans for more, traveling in some cases and simply driving to New Orleans after work in others. I know it helped me get through 2024. I don’t know that it will solve everything 2025 brings us, but I know it will be a positive event for us and that the effects covered in the article below are accurate.

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Sharing – For teens’ mental health, strong friendships matter more than social media use, study finds
ByMikeM March 15, 2025March 15, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Social media may be a problem for some teens, but online interaction that leads to friendships would be remarkably good for them. Simple bans aren’t going to have much of an impact, but giving kids opportunities to bond and make friends will. How do we do more of that?

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Sharing – Language That Deepens Trauma Instead of Healing It
ByMikeM March 13, 2025March 8, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

The amount of courage and effort it took to tell you deserves more than a dismissive comment.

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Sharing – Advice, resources for parents of children with mental health issues
ByMikeM March 12, 2025March 11, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

It all comes down to having safe, supportive, and involved adults (parents and others). Kids need that more than anything else. No social media or screen bans can replace that.

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Financial Stress and Mental Health
ByMikeM March 5, 2025March 1, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The stress of financial instability is not something that we can eliminate with positive vibes. Being on the verge of poverty or in poverty is a mental health risk factor unto itself. No self-help apps will provide for you if you’re laid off or prevent you from becoming homeless or hungry as the cost of living continues to outpace your income.

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Sharing – How to use mindful practices to manage dissociation
ByMikeM February 28, 2025February 27, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve never been taken to mediation the way other people have. I don’t particularly like the experience. It makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

I don’t know why; I know it doesn’t seem to work for me. I wonder, however, if part of my issue is that I need to live with some low-level dissociation. Maybe I’m so used to being slightly detached that focusing my attention entirely inward is too much. It’s overwhelming. It’s too much of a risk.

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