The Importance of Spirituality in Mental Health
November 11th, 2019
The subtitle of the book struck me as odd—“My Spiritual Autobiography.” How is a spiritual biography any different from a regular autobiography, I wondered. Twenty years after purchasing the book, I sat down to read it and my wondering turned to wonderment. For in Hannah Whitall Smith’s The Unselfishness of God: My Spiritual Autobiography I […]
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5 Possible Ways to Prevent Elder Abuse
August 19th, 2019
She was enraged at finding out that her son had applied to the courts for guardianship. From 1996 to 2007 she was the iconic Lt. Uhura of “Star Trek,” USS Enterprise chief communications officer, Starfleet Command, USS Enterprise-A chief communications officer, Starfleet Academy. Now her son was claiming that she was suffering from dementia, incapable […]
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Adult Health
July 1st, 2019
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” This quotation from the writings of Saint Paul speaks to the ideal because, sadly, many people do not have the power to expel certain childhood experiences, such as childhood trauma, from their lives as they move into adulthood. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) , also referred […]
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Healing from a Place of Strength: The Gift of Positive Psychology
May 20th, 2019
The professor gave his class of young seminarians this advice: “Build your ministry on your strengths, not your weaknesses.” Most of his students thought his advice was unorthodox, as they had been taught throughout their educational experience to work on fixing their weaknesses if they wanted to succeed in life. When pressed to explain his […]
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