Health - Lynette M. Burrows

Do You Have a Mental Health First Aid Kit?

What do you do when you suffer a blow to your mental health, an injury? What would that be? Would you know what to do? Do you have a mental health first aid kit? Mental Injury vs Mental Illness? When you hear the term mental injury, what’s the first thing you think of? If you… Continue reading Do You Have a Mental Health First Aid Kit?

You Have the Right to Feel Good About Yourself

You have the right to feel good about yourself. Learn why you don’t. And try one of sixteen habits that can help improve your self-esteem.

Big Brain-Little Brain: The Mental Health Connection

Did you know about the mental health connection between your big brain and little brain? Each of us has a big brain, contained in our skulls, and a little brain contained in the guts. (I’ll bet you thought I was going to say something else.) The reason the gut is called the second brain is… Continue reading Big Brain-Little Brain: The Mental Health Connection

Feelings-They Are All in Your Head and How to Make it Better

It’s winter in the northern hemisphere. Winter-the cold, dark, rainy, snowy, hibernation season. A season often associated with sadness and loneliness and isolation. UGH. Feelings—they are all in your head and how to make it better—are the focus of my Wednesday blogs this month. Because yeah, I have noticed a change in my moods and… Continue reading Feelings-They Are All in Your Head and How to Make it Better

Your Gift Could Save a Life or Find a Cure

Finishing my Best Gifts posts, this charity is no surprise: The American Diabetes Association. Readers of this blog know that my niece and my husband are diabetics. Giving to the American Diabetes Association and their research partner, the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation are on my list. Your gift pays forward to the newly diagnosed,… Continue reading Your Gift Could Save a Life or Find a Cure