For people with mental health challenges, living in the path of a major hurricane can create an equally devastating hurricane within. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder already elevate ones vulnerability in times of stress. Then add an oncoming category five or four hurricane to the mix and imagine tripling the feelings ofContinue reading “The Hurricane Within “
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For the Love of Brains
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and May 4 is declared by the White House as National Mental Health Awareness Day. Let’s just come out and say it: brains. I have a seven year old son and so it’s hard for me to say this word without hearing the zombie character from the 2012 filmContinue reading “For the Love of Brains”
Beauty Shop Secrects
“So what do you do?” Wearing a chocolate brown smock with my wet hair up in clips I smile and say, “I do lots of things. It is complicated.” My new hairstylist nodded. Within thirty seconds our conversation landed on the topic of mental health. “I have a story that no one knows. Not anyoneContinue reading “Beauty Shop Secrects “
Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund 