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Daily NewslettersWith the arrival of the holiday season, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Here are some ideas to help keep yourself healthy and focused on the real reason for the season.
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With the arrival of the holiday season, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Here are some ideas to help keep yourself healthy and focused on the real reason for the season.
An Urbandale hospital says it is implementing procedures to ensure it doesn't repeat a mistake made last weekend, when more than 100 children were given the wrong dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
About a dozen long-term care facilities across Eastern Iowa have hired apprentices to fill open CNA positions. The program, facilitated through Kirkwood Community College, hopes to entice long-term employees locally by providing funding for their coursework and exam costs.
Symptoms of sleep apnea are more than snoring and feeling tired. Women are more likely to report headaches, depression, anxiety, insomnia and sleep disruption. Children may experience bed-wetting, hyperactivity and learning issues.
Too often in relationships we place high value on sameness. We surround ourselves with people who think like us, believe like us, and vote like us. We seek out those who will reinforce what we already believe, rather than disagree with us.
While the season can be a special time that, hopefully, brings joy and innocence, it also can sometimes be accompanied by stress, tension and anxiety.
He sees you when you’re sleeping and he knows when you’re awake. But he will also need to know how many you plan to have at your gathering and whether they’ll be wearing masks.
Having an attitude of gratitude can instantly change your perspective and will often boost your mood and fill your heart with appreciation.
When we think about connection, we typically just think about emotions, but a lasting connection goes beyond that. To create a lasting connection it is about connecting things together that often seem fragmented.
More than 80 percent of the people in the United States have social media and spend an average of about two and a half hours on such platforms every day. Yet research has consistently shown that social media usage has been associated with low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, self-isolation, disrupted sleep, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, and even physical health challenges.
The expectations I place on myself of wanting to create perfect holiday memories can leave me feeling out of sorts.
Using social media activates the brain’s reward center by releasing dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical linked to pleasurable activities, and too much or too little of it has been linked with mental health disorders and challenges.
You’d be hard pressed to listen to any political speech or debate and not hear the word family. Whether it’s “middle-class families,” or “immigrant families,” or “the break-down of families,” politicians frequently invoke the term.
