Reliable information was the first COVID-19 victim. With so many players, from politicians and government officials, to self-described experts and bad actors on the Internet, all have weighed in on how to respond to the pandemic. The resulting confusion and obfuscation have been astounding. Messages with vested interests behind each pronouncement make it tough to…
Being Healthy has certainly been the headline of the year. COVID-19 brought all of its political baggage and started to move in. We learned: about a novel virus – both the real and the perceived threats to ourselves that Public Health measures can help retard the spread of the virus through a population that political…
No matter which side of the electronic cigarette debate you are on, I don’t think we expected to see vaping and deaths together in the same sentence. However, that is just what happened in the headlines in recent weeks. As the media has rushed to tout the deadliness of vaping with the same enthusiasm it…
Do your resolutions about exercise come and go? It happens to the best of us. Reasons for this generally start like “I couldn’t because…” and go off to sound like something that is convincing – to ourselves anyway. What a lot of the dilemma boils down to is that you’ve got to like what you…
Have you ever had to make a public speech? A serious situation, right?
Butterflies-in-the-stomach, sweaty palms, sleepless night before. All classic symptoms of stress that thankfully resolve right after the dreaded event.
But what if you had a steady diet of stressors like this every day? Each day piling on more anxiety. You’d think something would have to give.
It does.