by Maureen | Nov 20, 2020 | Personal
Thanksgiving is next week, officially marking the start of the holiday season. But everything is different this year. We’ll be smaller groups gathering, and along with the scent of crisp turkey slow cooking on the oven, is anxiety. Those of us with school-age...
by Maureen | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
After the better part of a year spent social distancing, wearing masks, using hand sanitizer throughout the day, quarantining, and the general restlessness to return to normal life, “pandemic fatigue” is becoming the pandemic within a pandemic. How can we distinguish...
by Maureen | Oct 1, 2020 | Personal
The brain is an amazing thing. Our brains are processing information constantly at warp speed. That’s the energy you are receiving. How you think about and process that information is the energy you communicate. I cite Masuro Emoto’s study of water in my book, Happy...
by Maureen | Sep 18, 2020 | Personal
Educators, parents, and schools are adjusting to the new reality of remote learning. While this presents pros and cons across the board, the very real threat of cyber-bullying has been pushed to the backseat, and arranging home schools and learning pods are at the...
by Maureen | Sep 10, 2020 | Personal
First published by New York Newsday, September 18, 2001 The assault on America has left us horrified: the grieving faces, missing-person signs, footage of our imploding towers. E-mailed news of a candlelight vigil spread as quickly as the fired burned up a once...
by Maureen | Aug 21, 2020 | Personal
I try to always look through a lens of hope and positivity, and while I can usually find the light, even in the darkest hours, the COVID-imposed isolation can have devastating effects on the brain. The populations that are suffering the most are the elderly, as well...
by Maureen | Aug 14, 2020 | Personal
What started as a temporary remedy in response to the pandemic has become a permanent reality for many of us: the home office. If you’re still working at your dining room table on a dining room chair or kitchen stool – stop. You’re not doing yourself any favors. The...
by Maureen | Aug 7, 2020 | Personal
It started with a recurring nightmare I had while in my third year of college. I would wake up crying and feeling terrified. At the time, my parents were going through a terrible divorce. I was in Boston at school; my younger brother and sister at home in the midst of...
by Maureen | Jul 31, 2020 | Personal
“Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful,...
by Maureen | Jul 24, 2020 | Personal
There is a reason that you have been told since you were a child to look at the “bright side”. Being positive-minded affects your brain, your heart, and your health. One of the best psychology journals, Psychology Today wrote about their findings about positivity in...
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