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Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2024 Edition: Gracious gifts that spread love and beauty -
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Tag Archives: Mental health
Study Shows Link Between Exercise and Mental Health
Studies on mice link irisin and exercise to lower risk of dementia
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to delay dementia? Well, in fact, there is. It’s been proven that exercise and mental health are closely linked. You can keep your brain healthy by moving your body. The connection … Continue reading
Psychedelics and a Smartphone App Create Healing “Trips”
New Wavepaths app shows promise as a therapeutic tool
Psychedelics — the “party drugs” that became part of the counterculture in the 1960s and have since been banned in the United States — are not part of what most of us consider mainstream medicine. In fact, all psychedelics, including … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety research, Brian Eno, Ecstasy, LSD, MDMA, Mendel Kaelen, Mental health, Mescaline, Psilocybin, Psychedelic drugs, PTSD research, Wavepaths
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“Nothing Was the Same” by Kay Redfield Jamison
A woman with bipolar disorder grieves the death of her husband
In 1995, Kay Redfield Jamison published her book, “An Unquiet Mind” about her struggle with bipolar disorder. She wrote about suffering the unbearable lows of depression and the shattering highs of mania. With the help of her husband, family, … Continue reading
Addiction: The Terminal Illness No One Talks About
Addiction and its aftermath kill millions of Americans every year
Turn on the radio or TV news today and you will probably hear something about America’s epidemic of drug abuse. Opioids (a class of drugs that includes prescription medicines like oxycodone and fentanyl as well as the illegal drug heroin), … Continue reading
“Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M. Consoles and Inspires
Song for funeral or memorial brings mourners together
The experience of grief can include rapidly fluctuating, intense feelings such as depression, hopelessness, anger, apathy, frustration, and fear. For many of us, it will be the closest we come to feeling totally, completely unhinged, groundless, and alien to the whole … Continue reading
What is Suicide Prevention? An Interview with Jennifer Lockman
How Centerstone Research Institute uses data to provide better behavioral health disorder care to prevent suicide
Today SevenPonds speaks with Jennifer D. Lockman, M.S., of the non-profit organization Centerstone Research Institute. Based in Tennessee and Indiana, CRI aims to improve the quality of care for behavioral health disorders, including those that often result in suicide. Together … Continue reading
