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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 – Why I Stayed Silent
ByMikeM June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

The central question of the article below is a good one: Why Do victims of nonsexual violent crimes usually involve authorities while most rape survivors remain silent? Most of the article is about adult sexual assault, but she points out that children who are sexually abused face this same question for similar reasons. Those reasons…

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I Need You To Go Read This Collection of Research about Teens and Social Media
ByMikeM January 6, 2024January 11, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

More importantly, for those of us trying to advocate for mental health, we need to realize that there is no simple answer. Turning off all of social media is not going to cure the mental health crisis. It won’t change everything that is going on in all of our lives and across the world. Pretending that we’d all have much better mental health if we just killed off Instagram or TikTik isn’t going to make the county’s mental health problems go away.

So why aren’t we discussing the harder problems that have some proven research to show the negative effects on children’s lives? School shootings, violence, racism, oppression of LGTBQ and minorities, poverty, lack of access to mental health care, etc.

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Sharing – Do Christmas your way
ByMikeM December 5, 2023August 28, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We tend to have these odd expectations about what our Christmas Day should look like. Anything less than the Instagram-worthy family photo with matching PJs and the large dinner surrounded by a loving family is considered an unhappy holiday when this picture of a holiday isn’t possible or desired for so many of us.

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Happiness Lab on How to Make Friends and Compliment People
ByMikeM October 16, 2023October 15, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Over the weekend I listened to this episode of the Happiness Lab podcast and I wanted to share it because I think Dr. Santos and her guests hit on some pretty interesting topics. Specifically, I felt like this was some more scientific evidence for how small actions, like compliments, can create a connection between people and make both the giver and the receiver, happier.

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Sharing – What happens after you tell your story? That’s a story in itself
ByMikeM February 20, 2023February 16, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

And if you feel strongly that you want to write a book, start a site like this, and hit social media and tell the world, make sure you are prepared for all of it. Once it’s out, you no longer control it.

Once you’re sure, though, tell your story for all the people who aren’t ready yet.

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