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Moms, Does Society Do Your Job? Didnā€™t Think So. Jan 20, 2023

Recently, members of PWH’s support group for new moms emphasized a problem. A problem that they grapple with as individuals, having to do with their values, identities, wishes, needs, and the natural oscillations that happen when one becomes a parent. This is also a social problem.

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Is Pain All in Your Head? Jan 20, 2023

So, is pain all in your head? Our society has created this idea about pain being a direct result of a wound, injury, or illness. But, pain is actually a construct. It's NOT that the pain is all in your head, as in, it's imaginary! It's that pain is actually a signal created by the nervous...

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What is EMDR? A Game-Changer in Healing Trauma Jan 20, 2023

What is EMDR and how does it work? Ok, so you may already know that early childhood memories impact our beliefs about ourselves, life, and the world. Later memories of shocking or disturbing content do the same thing, and those beliefs about ourselves lie so deep in our core that they impact the...

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Depression and Anxiety are Not Caused by a Chemical Imbalance Jan 19, 2023

We want you to have all the facts so that you can make informed decisions about how you think about your emotional wellbeing and your healthcare. So, here it goes: According to Dr. Andrew Weil (with a critical eye), "The biomedical model explains depression as the result of a chemical imbalance...

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