I'm proud to say Rick Hanson shared this last night on his Buddha's Brain Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/BuddhasBrain?fref=ts ) My favorite color thinking is black and white. And mindfulness is all rainbow complex. I’m a...
Making Clark County a healthier place to grow up — and to live out your life — is the emphasis behind the biggest grants in a big round of giving just announced by the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington. The local...
Psychiatric disorders can be difficult to diagnose because clinicians must rely upon interpreted clues, such as a patient’s behaviors and feelings. For the first time, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine...
Help the young men in your life build healthy, non-violent relationships by teaching them early about the importance of respect, particularly for women. In this playbook you'll find tips, facts, and teachable moments to help you talk about...
If you’ve been watching the NBA playoffs, you’re no stranger to the Curry family. Riley Curry, two-year-old daughter of Warriors star Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha, became an instant celebrity a few weeks ago when she joined a...
Research in human development clearly shows that the seeds of empathy, caring, and compassion are present from early in life, but that to become caring, ethical people, children need adults to help them at every stage of childhood to nurture these...
Everyone can play a role in saving lives and preventing suicide. Anyone in the community can contribute -- from trusted care providers to strangers. It was a message echoed by many presenters at a conference sponsored by the Juneau Suicide...
During the past 20 years, research has shown childhood trauma such as abuse, neglect, and dysfunction directly correlates to long-lasting effects on both physical and mental health. Adverse childhood experiences (or ACEs) can lead to obesity,...
At 10 years old I knew my parents did not wish to be resuscitated nor plugged into machines in the event of serious illness. They told me they were not afraid of death but rather of being kept alive at any cost. I knew they would refuse medical...
We all know that listening to music can soothe emotional pain, but Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys can also ease physical pain, according to a study of children and teenagers who had major surgery. The analgesic effects of music are well...
In 2010, Frank Lindsay came home after running errands and noticed his front door was wide open. When he went inside to investigate, he found a young man in his dining room with two hammers — "one in each hand," he recalls. "And he...
It's early evening and several men are making their way, alone or in twos or threes, to the community room at the Jordan Downs public housing complex. This building looks like everything else here: squat, rectangular, painted boring,...
In her first interview since being sent back to Honduras, the teenage mother who cut her wrist in U.S. custody described a dramatic six days – in which, she said, she was taken from her young son, stripped naked in front of screaming...
Straight from the “no shit” department: Counseling clients at family planning clinics about the proven effectiveness of contraceptive methods results in more clients choosing more effective methods, and in turn,...
It took about a year for the nightmares — the same images coming over and over — to stop. In them, Kansas City Police Officer Melanie A. Madonia rushed to help a 4-year-old girl who was lying face down after accidentally shooting...