Sometimes we get a thought that just wants to hang around. Maybe it revolves around something that happened…or something we did…or something we should have done…or something someone did to us. Or maybe it’s just one of those jingles or songs you... 

One of my favorite examples of resiliency is Victor Frankl, a psychiatrist who spent three years in Nazi death camps. He developed the “Theory of Meaning.” “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling... 

One of my favorite topics is resilience. Resilience? My psychiatric nurse practitioner definition is the ability of people to cope with any number of life’s stressors. These can include hurricanes, floods, fires, the death of a family member or friend,... 

A recent article in WebMD discussed a study about ways to reduce dementia. MD Louise Chang reported on the 2007 study that followed 8,000 people around for four years and concluded that rates of dementia differed sharply between people over 65 who ate...