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...
by Teri Brown | Jan 29, 2015 | APPS, organizing, Writing Life
I just spent an entire month telling you about all the ways I organize all the things. My Apps, my lists, my bags and my home. So you might find it surprising that I recently spent a three day weekend at home without a list. Not a single whisper of a list did I make....
by Teri Brown | Jan 15, 2015 | Books, health, joy, Writing Life
Okay, so by now some of you may think I’m a little Type A/OCD about organization and I promise you, I’m really not. Ask my husband. Or my boss. All this just sort of snuck up on me. Everyone has exactly the same amount of time allotted to them. In that, we all have a...
by Teri Brown | Feb 20, 2014 | health, Writing Life
The passing of a love one almost always jumpstarts a period during which you evaluate your own life. Because of my recent bout with cancer, I’d just done this and feel as if I’m on the right course. Losing my sister just reiterates what I already know. I want to...
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