Glenn Close was riveting! My eyes watered as I listened to her poignant moving story about mental illness in her family. All of a sudden, Ms. Close was no longer the Hollywood legend illuminating the Silver Screen, but a fallible fellow human being dealing with a gut-wrenching issue that haunts many of our lives. But, […]
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Just off the coast of our peaceful seaside community, unquiet ghosts rage against the gods in the morning mist. Our wild West Coast beauty harbours a very ugly piece of human history. D’Arcy Island was a leper colony from 1891 to 1924. It housed society’s untouchables: the soiled and diseased ones – shoved away into
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Is proper communication dead? A recent email nightmare gives me cause for concern. Someone with limited communication skills decided to get very annoyed with me by email. I was flattened to see an online message full of bold red letters followed by multiple exclamation marks. It left me wondering: Have emailing, texting, tweeting and Facebook
When is the last time that you saw a movie or heard a song about our most important love affair of all – the one with ourselves? Every second of the day we are brainwashed and inundated with songs, media messages and films about the desperate need to be loved by others. There are millions
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Many experts believe that psychological stress plays a part in many illnesses. Psychological stress decreases immunity and makes people more susceptible to disease. In my personal opinion, chronic unmanaged stress can have a very damaging effect on a person’s mental and physical health. It is crucial to learn ways to mitigate stress in our personal
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