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...
by Maureen | Jul 16, 2020 | Personal
This has been a terrible, awful and seemingly never-ending pandemic. I have personally lost a few of my close friends to this virus and I was not even able to attend their funerals. I have seen my family maybe three times since March. I get very irritated when my...