There comes a time in most people’s lives when their feet are knocked out from under them. The lives they were living are now not the same – and might not ev...

Common Resilience Factors Through their two decades of work with trauma survivors, Dr. Steven and Dr. Dennis Charney identified 10 common resilience factors:...

I spent the better part of this week looking for toilet paper! Who would have ever imagined that people would find having massive amounts of toilet paper as ...

Global news has been quite grim lately. It is not unusual to hear of new terrorist attacks, mass shootings and Coronavirus.. How does our brain assimilate th...

The impact of burnout can bring a promising career to a halt. All the while, the psychological stress of burnout not only impairs people’s personal and socia...

The Impact of Extreme Stress in the Workplace The workplace is a novel and complex environment and our brains love it. Except - when we are too stressed out ...

Ask someone if they consider themselves a creative person and they might offer a couple of different responses. People who believe that they are creative mig...

Have you ever experienced ‘flow’? That is the time that you are just humming along oblivious to anything other than the project you are working on. It is a w...

A number of years ago I wrote an article about the impact of drinking on older adults. Everyone got nervous about the topic because there is something about ...

One of the crazy things about aging is that so much is happening to our body and our brain that we can’t see. The realization that we just can’t move as well...

Well we are at the end of January already! Has the excitement of the new year with new goals and resolutions worn off yet? And, for all of us in the northern...

There is no lack of information on the process of visualization. I have known about it for a very long time. Mentors and coaches taught me techniques on how ...

The New Year brings in a clean slate – what are you going to do with it? Let’s go for the big idea and talk about your life purpose. Do you have any idea as ...

The start of the New Year 2020!! This number seems somewhat surreal to me. When I was in grad school, I learned that there was a big study started about wome...

There is no doubt that Santa always rises to the occasion of delivering all those gifts around the world on Christmas. But he isn’t the young pup he used to ...

There is a phenomenon that takes place over the holiday season that all service providers for seniors are familiar with: Adult children coming home for the h...

As they say - you are what you eat! The foods we eat or don’t eat impact our brain, mental health and mood. That is a lot to comprehend. How can one aspect o...

Well you know the boomers have arrived into their later years! I have seen quite a few commercials for brain health vitamins and supplements on TV. I really ...

Feeling gratitude is a core piece of a brain healthy life. There is much written about it, and many suggestions of how to do it properly. And even though we ...

Thanksgiving is next week. Those of us in the US set aside a day to express gratitude for all that life brings us. How can you find that ‘attitude of gratitu...