by Teri Brown | Mar 5, 2015 | Books, joy, Volunteering, Writing Life
My first guest in my blog series on Writers and Altruism is Portland author Dawn Prochovonic. Why is volunteering important to you? Volunteering is important to me on many different levels, and it has opened my heart and mind in unexpected ways. Volunteering helps me...
by Teri Brown | Feb 26, 2015 | health, joy, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Life
For the past month, I’ve been covering different strategies writers, (or anyone), can use to protect their mental health. Mental health is just as important as physical health and are as intrinsically tied as the ocean and the moon—something that was brought to my...
by Teri Brown | Feb 15, 2015 | Books, health, joy, Mental Health, Writing, Writing Life
The last thing any writer wants to hear when they already put in thousands of words a week is to write more, but that is exactly what new studies are suggesting. Writing down your feelings can actually improve mood. So maybe those angst filled chronicles of our teen...
by Teri Brown | Feb 8, 2015 | health, Mental Health, Writing Life
I’ve often wondered about the mind body connection. It’s well documented that chronic stress can have a negative effect on your body. But can your body, or more specifically, what you put in your body, have the same effect on your mind and mental health? For years...
by Teri Brown | Feb 5, 2015 | health, Mental Health, Writing Life
As I swing into my mental health and your average writer month, I want to make a couple of disclaimers: I am not writing as a mental health professional. I’ll be writing on strategies to protect and promote your own mental health, not to regain it once it’s out of...
by Teri Brown | Feb 1, 2015 | health, Mental Health, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Life
Is it just a myth that writers tend to be prone to fits of melancholia? (And yes, I’ve always wanted to write that in a sentence—fits of melancholia. Just lovely. So much more romantic a term than depression.) The link between writers and depression, though still...
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