Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Dr. Angela Londoño-McConnell
The debate of nurture vs. nature continues to be a focus of research being conducted today in the field of mental health. I just attended a conference where the topic of environmental factors and their effect on our mental health was widely discussed. Yet, how much do you really know about the experiences that might have shaped your family life (nurture) or about your family’s mental health history (nature)?
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Posted on April 9th, 2010 by drstephaniesmith
I just hate yoga. I hate the awkward positions. I hate the funky new age music. I hate the silence, and I really hate when that silence is interrupted by the gas that is inevitably passed by my neighbor. Luckily for me (and maybe you too) there are lots of other ways to attain that same level of relaxation that do not involve becoming a human pretzel.
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Posted on March 19th, 2010 by drstephaniesmith
In my previous post I talked about how many of us have gotten caught up in bragging about the amount of stress we are under as a way to impress people. We count the number of hours we spend in the car, on the laundry, at our kids’ schools, at our desk, and paying our [...]
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