Blog
on being helpful
Last weekend the Dayton Daily News published a story about a young girl who took her own life shortly after COVID-19 shut things down last March. That got me to thinking - are people taking time to check in on friends
fixing your sleep
We've had a rough year - well, more than a year, really. Adjusting life amidst a pandemic has meant not just working more from home and spending more time indoors. It's also meant a lack of sleep. Admittedly, my sleep
Kids, COVID and Mental Health
NOTE: This article appeared in the Wilmington News Journal on May 11, 2021: Not long after COVID-19 started shutting things down last year, I got a call from my sister. Her oldest, a 13-year-old who had been
Life's weeding process
Our guest blog writer this week is Michelle Rolf, Southwest Ohio Director at Mental Health America of Northern Kentucky & Southwest Ohio: I was working in the garden last weekend (remember… when it was warm and
Be One of Us
You may have heard it from friends or family members before when you're having a drink: "I'm just having one." But is it really? Truth be told, the amount of alcohol in one beer is different from the amount of alcohol
one year of COVID
It's hard to believe - well, maybe not so hard - that today marks one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. In that time, our lives changed in so many ways - and not always in good ways. While we've had to