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When you’re anxious, all you can see is your anxiety . It feels urgent, serious and overwhelming. You wonder if you’ll always feel this way. You wonder, Why me? Why now? Why won’t it stop? You feel frustrated and hopeless—like there’s nothing you can do. Thankfully, there is. There are many strategies to help manage and minimize anxiety. Below are five excellent ideas from the new book Stop Anxiety from Stopping You: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Panic and Social Anxiety . It’s...

Drug and alcohol abuse are not bound by geography, economics or culture – anybody could be affected by addiction, directly or indirectly. Pathways, a treatment facility in St. Helens, is helping people get clean and sober and hopefully stay that way with the assistance of health local agencies. For decades now, Pathways has offered rehabilitation services. Two years ago, Bridge to Pathways, a detox center in the Pathways facility, was opened to provide a local in-patient setting to treat...

This past year, I served as a co-principal of Tindley Preparatory Academy, an all-boys charter school in Indianapolis. If you have ever worked in a school you understand how boys can be. Also, anyone who has worked in a middle school understands how difficult middle school can be. Imagine having both middle school and boys. Oh, did I also mention that I was a first-year principal. There were a lot of stressful, anxious days until I found mindfulness. Then it was mindfulness that helped me...

A study released in May by Voices for Utah Children found black, Hispanic and American Indian students have been disproportionately disciplined in schools throughout the state. The report looked at the 2013–14 school year and found 6 percent of all students of color received a disciplinary action, compared with 3 percent of their white counterparts. In Northern Utah area school districts, the Weber School District was among those to have higher-than-expected discipline rates for students of...

For the first time in nearly a decade, Hawaii's homeless population is falling. Data released last month shows that, while the archipelago still has the highest homelessness rate in the United States, in the last year the number of homeless people across the state has fallen by 9 percent, from 7,921 to 7,220. The implementation of " Housing First " strategies played a significant role in the drop, according to the statewide Point in Time count. In the nearly two years since Governor David...

During President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address, he declared that “in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” The populist right would do well to apply that formulation to the street violence associated with the drug trade. The War on Drugs is a decades-old federal effort that has failed as consistently and completely as any government initiative in American history. A generation has passed since National Review declared it...

Whether you are dealing with a known trauma, have a chronic condition you have not been able to effectively deal with ( i.e.: weight, pain, eating disorder etc.) or you are stuck somewhere in your life and are unable to move forward (Relationships, finances or health), it almost always stems from something stuck, unprocessed in y our Nervous System. This unprocessed scenario keeps looping within y our sub-conscious mind, re-creating itself and out-picturing itself as an actual experience in...

Two decades after the U.S. farm crisis, the suicide rate among American farmers remains much higher than among other workers, a new study finds. "Occupational factors such as poor access to quality health care, isolation and financial stress interact with life factors to continue to place farmers at a disproportionately high risk for suicide," said study co-author Corinne Peek-Asa. She is a professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

Our organization has just completed three straight years of doing our in-school violence and bullying prevention program in middle schools and high schools throughout the United States, reaching 9,436 youth. Data and statistics aside, we adults associated with the program learned quite a bit about youth and violence. There is an old saying about violence: “People who do violence either don’t know better or don’t care.” Our organization has now completely ruled out that kids don’t care. [For...

The rate of opioid addiction among Americans age 25 and under rose nearly sixfold from 2001 to 2014. But few young addicts get medical treatment that might prevent overdose or relapse, a new study finds. Only about 27 percent of youths treated for addiction to prescription painkillers or heroin receive either buprenorphine or naltrexone, two recommended anti-addiction medications, researchers reported. [For more of this story, written by Steven Reinberg, go to ...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s most recent numbers, the unemployment rate in Illinois is 4.6 percent. But if you look at certain segments of the state’s population, the numbers tell a different story. Illinois’s youth are experiencing joblessness at a rate of nearly 70 percent—almost 16 times the statewide average. Chicago’s Cook County is home to the largest share of this demographic, with the situation particularly difficult for the 21,500 16- to 24-year-olds without a...

I know the importance of breaks in a workday. The science clearly shows that taking a cognitive timeout helps us to work better and feel better, and personal experience confirms that. But, still… Like many Americans, I sometimes find myself working right through lunch. I get lost in my work, or I think, Hey, if I just finish this project, it will be out of my hair and then I can relax. But a newly published study suggests that this is the wrong approach. It turns out that taking a deliberate...