5 Ways to Face Father's Day

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5 Ways to Face Father's Day

Sadly, many people are missing their dads even more as we approach Father’s Day.  Perhaps, this is their first Father’s Day without their Dad or the umpteenth Father’s Day missing their Dad.  Either way, the pain is very real and my heart aches for them.  People can miss their Dad due to ongoing social distancing, death of their Dad, loss of a relationship with their Dad, or loss of who their Dad truly is and was due to Alzheimer’s Disease or Dementia.

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4 Ways To Deal With Misuse During COVID-19

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4 Ways To Deal With Misuse During COVID-19

We need to discuss and address misuse.  As I have said in previous blogs, perhaps my head was in the sand or perhaps I was being overly optimistic or even a combination of both, but I had hoped that substance use/misuse/abuse and dependence would have decreased with COVID-19.  No such luck.  I keep reading articles and hearing about how use of drugs and alcohol is up.  Relapses are up as are overdoses.  This is not just happening locally, but across the United States and in other countries too!  It makes absolute sense though.  As I have mentioned in previous blogs on addiction, people have never really had the goal to struggle with addition, rather use often begins when people seek ways to cope with stress, pain, and/or trauma.

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Why It's Ok To Not Be Ok

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Why It's Ok To Not Be Ok

It’s ok to be doing this quarantine thing in a messy way. It’s ok to be barely making it out of bed in the morning. It’s ok to be so scared to leave your house that you don’t. It’s ok to be doing the best you can and then wondering if that’s even good enough. Give yourself grace while we are all figuring this out. And tell yourself : it’s ok to not be ok. 

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Positives To The Pandemic

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Positives To The Pandemic

If you are like me, you did not think we would be living the way we are now...social distancing, limited access to events and goods, wearing masks, and relying on technology online to communicate and interact with others.   Perhaps, I have had “my head in the sand” as my late mother would always say about not wanting to face reality or the truth of a situation.  However, there is no avoiding the truth of the COVID-19 Pandemic or the reality of it. 

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The Art of Being Alone

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The Art of Being Alone

Do you find that you surround yourself with others simply to pass the time, or doing things you don’t enjoy just to have something to do?  In today’s hyperconnected world, people are often never alone so that when it does happen, they have no idea how to cope with that fact and are quite unhappy in their own company.  And now, dealing with COVID and the a stay at home order, many of us find ourselves alone since we can’t leave our houses much anymore.

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