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In the song “Waiting for the Miracle“, Leonard Cohen tells the story of a man realizing that he has waited “half his life away” for…
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Olga Boznaska (1865-1940) is a famous female Polish Post-Impressionist painter. She was prominent for multiple portraits of fragile women and children permeated with hints of…
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Our minds work in incredible ways to protect us from the negative experiences that occur throughout our lives. Those diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID)…
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Where the Watermelon Grow is a debut novel by author Cindy Baldwin, a novel for kids age 9 to 11+ about a family touched by…
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In this thought provoking and humorous TedTalk about animal mental illness, Dr. Laura Braitman, a researcher who studies non-human animals who exhibit signs of mental…
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A Prussian meteorologist named Heindrich Willhelm Dove found binaural beats in 1839, also call “brain entrainment”. “Binaural” means “relating to both ears”. Binaural beats are…
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Click here to view our podcast channel! Did you know that the trillions of bacteria in the human gut have a surprisingly big impact on…
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex mental health disorder marked by difficulty in emotion regulation and impulse control, which impacts both the individual and…
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Social media influencers have created an enormous impact on online culture, often serving as role models and mentors to the people who follow them. Influencers…
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Bearing witness to one’s trials and triumphs through their poetry can be a meaningful way of connecting with another individual. Tanesha Nicole’s spoken word poem…