Mental health is a tenuous thing. We all want it. And yet many of us struggle with it every day. Think of the people you know who suffer from anxiety or depression. The numbers are staggering. Officially one in five of us will experience a mental illness at some time in our lives. The other …
Author: Louise Behiel
Author, therapist, mother and grandmother. I'm on a spiritual journey and consciously work to grow up every day.
In Memorium: September 11, 2001
This video captures my thoughts and feelings on that day. Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning? (in case there’s a problem this video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj6zdWLUuk) On my way to work, I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the tower. I logged into CNN. I read the headline and then got …
I’m in My New Digs – Excuse the Mess, But Come On In
What a week this has been. I have been planning to move to a self-hosted site for a while and this week, I did it. With a lot of help. Who knew there was so much work involved in moving a blog to a website? Many thanks to the incomparable Steena Holmes (www.steenaholmes.com) for making …
Bring on the Boxes. I’m Moving! I’m Moving!
As mentioned previously, this blog is moving to its own website. Yay!!! After reading all the posts about moving your website (thanks to Melinda VanLone and Marcy Kennedy), I hired the wonderful Steena Holmes to make it happen. Steena is a dear to take this project on right now. Her book, Finding Emma is an Amazon bestseller …
Given that You Have One, Do You Know How it Works?
For years we have been fascinated with the brain and how it works. It is only recently (the past couple of decades) that the technology exists to allow us to look at the brain of a living person and begin to understand what’s happening. Suffice it to say, there’s way more we don’t know than …