Gender fluidity: What it means and why support matters
Take a moment — yes, right now — to consider your gender. Do you identify as a woman, man, or another gender: essentially, how would you describe your gender identity? How do you show your gender to other people through how you look or act — in other words, your gender expression? And has your gender identity or gender expression changed or stayed the same over time?
Questions like these can be especially valuable if you’re wondering about how gender identity and expression may shift as children grow up. And, of course, these questions may also resonate with many adults.
At times in my life, I’ve had shorter hair...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD Tags: Adolescent health Anxiety and Depression Children's Health LGBTQ Mental Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
poem
NextThis is a love story.If the flower doesn ’t turn to the sunThen how do you know it ’s a flower?When the water doesn ’t freeze at zero degreesYou ’ve mistaken a liquid for saline.That time your shoes wouldn't lace up anymoreWas because you were standing still in slippers.When your dog stops barking when someone is at the doorYou're comforted by a cat purring in your lap.Everything is just happening.Life is action,One event after the next,Even when it seems like nothing is movingLike this clenched fist on a hypersonic jet.If my boy can ’t chase that puckIf my girl isn ’t allowed to be kindIf I can ’t finish...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 30, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Perfection – Does It’s Promise Hold Up?
1/32 November 5, 2018 – Purple Dawn, Chilmark Pond https://vineyardcolors.com/
Crochet Anxiety & Perfection
Something I’ve noticed lately is how the striving for Perfection and trying to project our own little piece of Perfection out to the world can cause suffering – like actually a lot. So I wanted to explore that.
What is Perfection?
To me: Perfection is seeking to control things in our life in order to alleviate one of our human animal birthrights: general anxiety which stems from the animal need to survive.
So Ultimately what we are seeking (at all times and in all we do) is the feelin...
Source: Life Learning Today - November 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Creativity CROCHET Did You Know? Emotions Happy Ideas Personal Development Solving Problems Success control Source Type: blogs
Perfection – Does It’s Promise Hold Up?
1/32 November 5, 2018 – Purple Dawn, Chilmark Pond https://vineyardcolors.com/
Crochet Anxiety & Perfection
Something I’ve noticed lately is how the striving for Perfection and trying to project our own little piece of Perfection out to the world can cause suffering – like actually a lot. So I wanted to explore that.
What is Perfection?
To me: Perfection is seeking to control things in our life in order to alleviate one of our human animal birthrights: general anxiety which stems from the animal need to survive.
So Ultimately what we are seeking (at all times and in all we do) is the feelin...
Source: Life Learning Today - November 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Creativity CROCHET Did You Know? Emotions Happy Ideas Personal Development Solving Problems Success control Source Type: blogs
Perfection – Does It ’ s Promise Hold Up?
1/32 November 5, 2018 – Purple Dawn, Chilmark Pond https://vineyardcolors.com/
Crochet Anxiety & Perfection
Something I’ve noticed lately is how the striving for Perfection and trying to project our own little piece of Perfection out to the world can cause suffering – like actually a lot. So I wanted to explore that.
What is Perfection?
To me: Perfection is seeking to control things in our life in order to alleviate one of our human animal birthrights: general anxiety which stems from the animal need to survive.
So Ultimately what we are seeking (at all times and in all we do) is the feelin...
Source: Life Learning Today - November 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Creativity CROCHET Did You Know? Emotions Happy Ideas Personal Development Solving Problems Success control Source Type: blogs
Q & A With Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Scientist Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. Credit: University of California, Berkeley.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D., for the development of the gene-editing tool CRISPR. Dr. Doudna shared her thoughts on the award and answered questions about CRISPR in a live chat with NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Here are a few highlights from the interview.
Q: How did you find out that you won the Nobel Prize?
A: It’s a little bit of an embarrassing story. I slept through a very important phone call and finally woke up when a reporter called me. I was just comin...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 18, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Genes Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques CRISPR DNA Gene Editing Nobel Prize Source Type: blogs
10 Songs That Make People Happy
Inc. Magazine shared a recent article about 10 songs that make people happy, based on some findings by a neuroscientist several years ago. I don’t normally find Inc’s articles worthwhile because they publish so many fluffy clickbait pieces (often padding out one minor quote from Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or Jeff Bezos into a whole article). But I can say that Rachelle and I listened to several of the songs on this list last night while making dinner, and we did feel happier.
Here are the songs (also available on a Spotify playlist):
Don’t Stop Me Now by QueenDancing Queen by AbbaGood Vi...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - November 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Source Type: blogs
How the Idea of Perfection Could Be Weighing You Down Without You Knowing
Do you refuse to leave your house without mascara? Does the thought of an error on an expense report keep you up at night?
If you are tossing and turning over tens of thousands of dollars, it’s one thing. However, you might be one of many who grapple with stress brought on by unrealistic expectations. Here’s how the idea of perfection could be weighing you down without you knowing it, along with some tips for finding a healthier sense of priority.
The Weight of Unrealistic Expectations
If your pet Schnauzer pulls down your holiday tree, you get to decide if it’s a disaster or a hilarious memory you’ll chuc...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mia Barnes Tags: confidence featured happiness philosophy self-improvement expectations mental health motivation perfection pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Reviewing Netflix ’ s Ratched
Have you seen the Netflix series Ratched? In today’s Not Crazy podcast, we discuss whether the show gives an accurate portrayal of 1940’s mental illness treatments. And to help us out, we welcome Rachel Star Withers, the podcast host of Inside Schizophrenia and a person who lives with schizophrenia, to discuss her views of the show.
Are the lobotomies and hydrotherapy treatments portrayed in the show realistic? Did doctors really do lobotomies on children? Join us as we take a deeper look into this popular miniseries.
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Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Movie Review Not Crazy Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
I will not stand here and mourn a world that could have been
When it has already happened, it feels inevitable. A girl appearing late one night, quiet from trauma, the crossed arms and loud voices of police breaking the relative calm of the early morning ER. After the shift, ordering breakfast at the deli counter, a man showing me a newspaper with a grainy photo of a […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 2, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/marie-deluca" rel="tag" > Marie DeLuca, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Shoah
I was originally going to title this post res ipsa loquitur because I didn ' t think I really needed to comment. You are commanded to read the whole thing. I do however want to make a few points about this.1) Moses ismarriedto a Midianite woman. There is evidently nothing wrong with that. She has several sisters. Her father was Moses ' s confidante and counselor. I wonder how she felt about all this.2) The incident which precipitated this, described in Chapter 25, made no mention of Balaam. All of a sudden he gets the blame, which seems strange since he was totally respectful of Yahweh and predicted that the Israelites wou...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 28, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Value of Personal Mental Illness Stories
Openly sharing our personal mental health stories can help others know they’re not alone, especially when it’s a rarely-discussed or taboo subject. In today’s Not Crazy podcast, our guest Rachel Steinman, a podcaster, writer and mental health advocate, discusses what it’s like to host a podcast where she shares her family’s mental health secrets.
By talking openly about her family’s four suicides, mental illness, substance abuse, family affairs, and more, Rachel is changing the narrative and replacing it with love, compassion, and understanding.
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Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Family General Interview Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Source Type: blogs
poem
CrescentI want to go to bed vinegarAnd wake up a fine red wine.Dawn is coming soon andLingering Venus shimmers just belowA wryly grinning crescent moon.I want to imagine all things end well.The bad become the good,Dad shows up in the end,The girl says yes,The dead degrade and rise again green.I only eat blueberries one way:Cold and crisp, a wet pop between my teeth,Hints of sour, not quite ripeness.I won't settle for anything less.xBut the laughter of the universeGets swallowed by the void of night.Inescapable black holes abound.The infinite strength of gravityAlways trumps the rollicking Transience of infinite jest.A...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 25, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
A terminal diagnosis for my baby [PODCAST]
“Eventually, this thankfully passed. Now, almost three years later, I know that this loss will always be with us. Miriam was beautiful, she was our only girl, she was perfect for our family, and she ’s always missing. Still, my memories of being in the hospital are incredibly sad but also peaceful. In part, this is […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 23, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Neurology Patients Source Type: blogs
