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Yes, heat can affect your brain and mood. Here's why (npr.org)

Extreme heat can slow cognition and increase anxiety, research finds. Aleksandar Georgiev/Getty Images To read more of Allison Aubrey's article, please click here. If you're feeling a bit brain-fogged these days, you might not be wrong to blame it on the heat. Other studies have found an effect from heat on office workers and on standardized test score performance, says Caleb Dresser , an emergency medicine physician who also serves as the director of health care solutions at the Harvard...

Losing a pet is hard. Here's how to cope (npr.org)

Kaz Fantone/NPR To read more of Keisha "TK" Dutes' article, please click here. For Life Kit, I spoke with my friend Alexander Hardy – a writer and co-founder of a creative wellness agency – about how to cope with pet loss. Hardy, who is also grieving his family dog, Papi, explores how to express, process, and share the grief of losing a beloved pet. On celebrating your pet's life What are the lessons that your pet taught you? I'm sure they taught you a lot of things about taking care of...

The Meditative Beauty of Birding (lionsroar.com)

Photo by Frans Lemmens / Alamy Stock Photo. To read more of Benjamin Mui Pumphrey's article, please click here. Sitting and watching, sitting and watching. The similarities between birding and Buddhist meditation are startling. In meditation, we watch our thoughts arise then let them settle. We meditate in stillness because movement stirs up thoughts like warm air adds energy to kettling birds. More thoughts inevitably arise, because thinking is what brains do, and we let those streaming...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2023

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20230724161930/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-07-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_July_2023.pdf “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran Contents List :...

Resilience: An Essential Ingredient in Building Health and Well-being

The Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research (TIHCER) Collaborative presents: L aurie Leitch, Ph.D. has been a practicing psychotherapist, clinical trainer, consultant, social entrepreneur, and researcher for over 25 years. She is Director of Threshold GlobalWorks ( www.thresholdglobalworks.com ), dedicated to cultivating and amplifying resilience in individuals and within communities, organizations, and systems. Committed to promoting workplaces and communities in which principled...

Unleashing the Mind: The Neuroscience of Meditation and its Impact on Memory (neurosciencenews.com)

To read the Neuroscience News article, please click here. Summary: Meditation’s impact on memory is a fascinating confluence of ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience. Evidence suggests that meditation can stimulate changes in the brain, or neuroplasticity, potentially fostering structural growth in the hippocampus, a region vital for memory. Meditation also contributes to stress reduction, indirectly boosting memory performance by mitigating the harmful effects of stress hormones on the...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2023

Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran The Surviving Spirit Newsletter June 2023 Hi folks, Welcome to the the June issue of the Surviving Spirit Newsletter. It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe -...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter May 2023

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter May 2023 - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health. Hi folks, May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the Surgeon General's Report on Loneliness is quite timely: Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking: surgeon general by Amanda Seitz @ AP News The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors [NASMHP] is presenting these three Town Halls that tie in with the Surgeon General's Report: Cultivating a Culture of...

Why birds and their songs are good for our mental health [washingtonpost.com]

By Richard Sima, Illustration: George Wylesol/ The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 18, 2023 Looking to improve your mental health? Pay attention to birds. Two studies published last year in Scientific Reports said that seeing or hearing birds could be good for our mental well-being. So give them a listen as you learn why they may help. contact and interaction with nature are associated with better body and brain health.">Research has consistently shown that more contact and...

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