Childhood and the brain
Childhood Adversity While childhood impacts brain development and the potential for either struggle or resilience depending on one’s experiences, the brain isn’t static. Positive experiences and therapy can change and improve one’s brain chemistry.
Bypassing adolescence.
Growing up too quickly? If you grow up too fast do you ever really grow up or figure out who you are?
Existential thoughts
Searching for meaning . What are we looking for?
Mental Health…is yours a priority?
Mental Health. It can’t be ignored and it’s becoming more of a priority in corporate America.
Work, Love, Play…
Balance. Do you have the ability to incorporate work, love and play? Some say these are the cornerstones of humanness. Others say the ability or inability to balance these are also indicative of one’s mental health. What do you think?
Psychoanalysis really works.
Old school therapy is evidence-based treatment. The new age solution focused treatments used to say they were the only evidence-based treatments. We have found that to be false. Further more, long term and deeper work that requires insight leaves people with more lasting change.
Do you fear it?
Mental illness. Are we all ailed with it? Why is there so much shame around it?
Are kids taking longer to grow up?
Failure to launch. Young adults are regressing in terms of maturity…continued reliance on parents and it’s lasting longer and longer.
The Sin of Being Perfect.
I found this article to be interesting as there is so much perfectionism in Utah culture. Perfectionism