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Incentive Salience: When Liking Evolves to Wanting, Then Craving An incentive is something that motivates someone to act in some way. Salience is when something is noticeable. That leads to a term found in addiction speak — incentive salience. In the simplest of terms one might call it a trigger, […]

Pride Month: Fostering Inclusivity Can Make Schools More Welcoming for LGBTQ Youth Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (or questioning, also known as LGBTQ) youth face a mountain of challenges in the world. Bullying is one of them. It impacts one in five students ages 12-18 each year, but it’s […]

Gender dysmorphia is not an illness or defect but is a condition that some members of the LGBTQ community face.

Embrace the Benefits of Owning a Feline for Hug Your Cat Day Dogs might be called man’s best friend, but cats are no slouches in the companion department. So, in honor of National Hug Your Cat Day, here’s some appreciation for our feline friends. Besides being soft, fuzzy, and incapable […]

Pride Month: Support Groups That See All Colors of the Rainbow It’s no exaggeration to say there have been tensions between the LGBTQ community and the religious right. Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas was long known for picketing funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers, saying the deaths were punishment for America […]

Don’t Distance Yourself from Asking for Help If Self-Isolation Has You Down One huge change since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic is this new sense of isolation. In much of the U.S. for the last several weeks, people have been urged to quarantine, shelter-in-place, or […]

Mental Health Month: Mental Health Apps There’s an App for That: Downloads to Deep-Six Stress It seems like there’s pretty much an app for everything. Even for elevating one’s mental health. While tapping on your phone isn’t really a replacement for a sit-down with a therapist, there are downloads that […]

Mother’s Day The driving force behind making Mother’s Day an official observance was Anna Jarvis. It wasn’t solely her idea; her mother and other women long pushed for some kind of maternal appreciation observance. Jarvis organized the first official Mother’s Day celebration in 1908. It was a success and she […]