Health & Wellness

Collective grief happens when a community, society, village, or nation experiences extreme change or loss; like natural disasters, war, mass casualties, pandemics or any other widespread devastation.

If you’ve approached your vaccine-hesitant loved ones with the data and they haven’t changed their minds, you need to realize that you are bringing logic to an emotional conversation.

The pandemic has drastically changed the need for service dogs at facilities and for those with PTSD, prompting Deafinitely Dogs to shift its focus.

When someone you care about is facing a crisis, you want to do whatever it takes to help. But we don’t always know the right thing to do or say. And sometimes we let our fear of making the wrong choice keep us from reaching out.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, a movement is happening that carries with it potentially far reaching and lasting impacts as it pertains to how we as a society perceive mental health and well-being. When Simone Biles withdrew from gymnastics competition and Naomi Osaka took to the tennis court on the heels of withdrawing from the French Open, both athletes noted their mental health struggles.

A bad habit can start as a small, seemingly harmless choice, but if you let a bad habit fester, you may have a real mess later on.

An Eastern Iowa woman raised thousands of dollars during a fundraiser in honor of her mother, who has advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

In my experience, many people wait way too long to start therapy. They get stuck doing the same things to try to make change. Or their criticisms have turn into contempt – they view themselves or their loved ones with disdain and disgust.