As you know if you’ve spent much time around here, I am an advocate for self-care. We simply have to set some time aside to care for ourselves, to re-energize ourselves, and do what is necessary for our own mental health at times. We even, sometimes, need to stay away from people who would sabotage…
Bear with me on this. I want to take you back to the early 80s with me, in New York City. I’ve been listening to a podcast series on Spotify, The Story of the Clash, and during an episode a couple of weeks back, they were recalling the series of concerts the band played in…
As many of you probably know since I’ve mentioned being away from the online community for a bit, last week, my wife’s dad passed away, just 5 weeks after her mom had. The grieving process for us is still very much ongoing and will be for quite some time.. However, one thing that has seemed…
If you’re not familiar with the now somewhat famous ACE studies, what we are talking about here are studies that seem to show that the more Adverse Childhood Experiences you had, the more likely it is that you will deal with bad outcomes in adulthood. The original studies got a lot of media attention, deservedly,…
Last week, my mother-in-law passed away. As a husband, my first thought, and my first priority, was my wife, who had lost her mother. As a man who has lost a parent, but not my mother, I also knew this wasn’t a situation where I had any experience myself. Luckily, I do know women who…
It was just a couple of years ago that I was writing about how the social media algorithms could be shaping what we think, by giving us more of anything that we interact with. For example, Facebook and Google know exactly how much time you spent looking at friends vacation photos and wishing you could…
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