What Is Gaslighting?
May03

What Is Gaslighting?

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that toxic people use to maintain their control over others. It is a nasty and occasionally covert type of emotional abuse that the toxic person uses to make the target (victim) question their judgments and reality. When used enough, the victim starts to question their own sanity. This form of emotional abuse is a way for toxic people to exert their power over others to manipulate a person into...

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6 Tips For Working With Difficult People
Apr19

6 Tips For Working With Difficult People

We have talked before about understanding and communicating with difficult people; learning to work with them is just the next step. Knowing that 85% of our financial success is due to our personal skills, it is important to keep learning and understanding difficult people – because they are everywhere!!! You can read here more about the science and genetics behind difficult people. In an effort to understand them which will allow us...

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The Benefits Of Travel On PTSD and C-PTSD
Apr01

The Benefits Of Travel On PTSD and C-PTSD

Science and experience are showing us daily that travel is no longer just for recreation! The evidence suggests that when it comes to recovering from trauma, mental illness or addiction, traveling can have undeniable benefits on PTSD and C-PTSD; on our mental health in whole. Just as different herbal medicines can help relieve and heal our physical pain, travel helps with our mental pain. Travel, stepping outside of your comfort zone,...

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How To Help A Loved One With PTSD and C-PTSD
Mar29

How To Help A Loved One With PTSD and C-PTSD

Watching a loved one struggling with PTSD,C-PTSD, and depression is confusing, sometimes scary and all around really hard to do. Given that the effects of trauma are unique to each person, it can be tricky to identify PTSD and C-PTSD; which often times, causes major problems within family life and with friends. And to make it even more difficult, the effects of these can come right after trauma, a few months after trauma to even years...

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Female Pioneers In The Mental Health Industry
Mar18

Female Pioneers In The Mental Health Industry

In celebrating Women’s History Month, there are 5 females that made huge leaps for us that I would love to share with you. When many of us think about the mental health industry, it’s mostly men that come up in our minds. But so many women made equally if not more important contributions to understanding the human mind. And I think Women’s History Month is the perfect time to talk about them! Female Pioneers In The Mental Health...

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What Is C-PTSD?
Mar15

What Is C-PTSD?

We have talked about depression, trauma, and PTSD; now we are going to discuss Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Recently C-PTSD is becoming more recognized in the mental health community. C-PTSD is caused by repeated trauma over months or years rather than one single traumatic event. It can also evolve from untreated/mistreated depression and PTSD. Though C-PTSD and PTSD are very similar, C-PTSD is considerably...

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Sharing The Journey With Moving The Human Spirit
Mar08

Sharing The Journey With Moving The Human Spirit

As the celebration of Women in History continues with International Women’s Day today, I want to take some time to appreciate and share the journey, the freedoms, the rights that many of us girls take for granted today. It wasn’t too long ago that women could not vote, were not entitled to equal pay, were not even welcomed as part of the integral workforce or schools that shaped this country (or most countries for that matter). We...

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Celebrating Women in History During March
Mar01

Celebrating Women in History During March

As the mother of a daughter, as a business woman, as an influencer, women’s history is a very important topic for me to share about. Women’s rights have come such a long way and are so important that we have an entire month presidentially dedicated to Women’s History, and it starts today March 1! As women’s rights continue to evolve, as we break more glass ceilings, taking the time to remember how it all started, the roots of the...

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What Really Is PTSD?
Feb22

What Really Is PTSD?

We have been talking a lot about trauma recently. When trauma is left untreated, ignored or mis-understood, something called Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can develop. Sadly, it is estimated that 1 in 11 people will be diagnosed with this in their lifetime. Because the truth is, it does not just affect our veterans, but affects each person who has experienced trauma that has gone untreated. Women are twice as likely than men to...

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How To Understand And Communicate With Difficult People
Feb18

How To Understand And Communicate With Difficult People

Learning to understand difficult people – the non-cooperative people – is only the first step in navigating through life with them. Science has actually shown us that genetics plays a part in how difficult a person is, meaning it is not always the persons fault that they are being difficult. In fact, studies show that 35-50% of a person’s personality is genetic. Have you heard of the Serotonin Transport Gene? We all know...

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