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How To Strengthen Your Immune System During COVID-19

You can strengthen your immune system with a second line of defense if you’re exposed to the Corona virus Most of the messaging we are getting from the media make us feel powerless against coronavirus. Nobody knows when the Stay at Home orders can be safely lifted or when there will be a vaccine. We don’t...

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Calming Aromas For Covid 19 Worries

What calming aromas for Covid 19 isolation are soothing you? Calming aromas remind you of one indisputable truth. The only constant is change. Things will improve, they always do. It is a law of nature. Please keep that in the front of your mind as your mantra in the time of Covid 19 terror. When...

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My Suicide Prevention Plan And Why Some People Need One

You may need a suicide prevention plan and not even know it. Here’s a tough fact, mental illness and addiction are described as insidious and baffling for a reason. They persist even when life is pretty good. When life is unusually bad, they can ignite and become overwhelming. Why does everyone need a suicide prevention...

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Survivor’s Guilt Plagues Those In Opioid Recovery

Survivor’s guilt is not something you expect when you decide to go into opioid recovery Opioid recovery is challenging at best, but when your friends are dying, the trauma can become overwhelming. Many people I went to opioid addiction treatment with are dead from overdoses. Friends and coworkers are gone as a direct result of...

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Trauma Expert Shows How To Relieve PTSD At Home

Have you heard about Havening? This is the method of finding relief from panic and fear that anyone can do at home. Here is the video by Dr. Kate Truitt, trauma expert. She shows how you can calm yourself anytime anywhere. Havening is a practice talked about in Justin Bieber’s documentary, Justin Beiber: Seasons., and...

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Interview With Trauma Expert: Dr. Kate Truitt

Recently, I had the privilege of talking to trauma specialist Dr. Kate Truitt. Dr. Truitt is a licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing in Pasadena, CA. She is the founder of Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates, the CEO and Training Director for the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles, Global Coordinator of Continuing Education for the Havening Techniques,...

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Spotlight on Dr. Truitt: Havening At Home

As a trauma specialist, Dr. Truitt uses a variety of techniques with her patients to help relieve symptoms and treat PTSD and other trauma-related issues. Havening is a particularly useful technique for PTSD because it can be done at home and by yourself. Havening is a proven technique that helps relieve PTSD symptoms as they’re...

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Count Your Rainbows on Easter and Passover

Count your rainbows may seem like an impossible request with so many thunderstorms all around us. This weekend we celebrate Easter and Passover. These holidays are especially important now when we are not celebrating together. Let’s focus on the holidays we treasure, and look to the future. This is not the first plague humans have...

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Practice Not Perfection

Click the download button to print and see how many recovery words you can find in the Practice Not Perfection word search! The answer key is at the bottom of this page.    Download The following paragraphs are excerpts from Kyczy Hawk’s book, Life in Bite-Sized Morsels. Practice not perfection – realign yourself with your values...

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Gratitude Unlocks The Fullness Of Life

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life by literally changing brain function. It’s true. Attitude can make you happy or unhappy, satisfied or unsatisfied, and can even help your immune system fight off disease. That isn’t to say that if you are prayerful all day long you will not get sick. It doesn’t work that way....

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