Category: Mental Health & Culture
Mindset 2 Mastery: The Voices in Our Heads
Posted by Keisha A Rivers M.Ed. | Aug 15, 2019 | Health and Well Being, Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
Don’t “Be” Empowered…”Recognize” Your Power!
by Keisha A Rivers M.Ed. | Feb 1, 2020 | Human Development, Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
Year after year, we flock to “empowerment” conferences, retreats, workshops and speeches that promise to provide us with “empowerment”. They speak to our most basic feelings of insecurity, vulnerability, helplessness and...
Read MoreADDICTION: DISEASE OR MORAL FAILING?
by Jaishree Ellis, MD | Jan 15, 2020 | Education, Youth, & Culture, Health and Well Being, Human Development, Mental Health & Culture | 0
Recently, a friend asked me whether or not I believe that addiction is a disease. My opinion is that it most certainly is. Uncategorically, it is, in fact, a disease. This is not mere conjecture, nor is it a hypothesis. It has...
Read MoreDelay the Gratification Not Your JOY
by Adrienne Fikes, M.Ed., PCC | Dec 12, 2019 | Entrepreneurship & Business, Health and Well Being, Human Development, Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
You clearly understand that having lasting, meaningful success means setting priorities and being focused on achieving your goals.
Read More3 Questions To Ask When You Can’t Find The Time To Do What Really Matters
by Adrienne Fikes, M.Ed., PCC | Nov 27, 2019 | Entrepreneurship & Business, Health and Well Being, Human Development, Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
There are things people ask us to do that we don’t do. There are things we tell ourselves that we want to do that we don’t do. Yes, I do it too. Not as often as I use to do it but it still happens. The thing is, when...
Read More5 Ways to Finally Do That Thing You Still Haven’t Done
by Adrienne Fikes, M.Ed., PCC | Aug 27, 2019 | Entrepreneurship & Business, Health and Well Being, Human Development, Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
Yes, this is about that thing you’ve been putting off. Yes, you are doing so many great things and that is marvelous. You look like quite the accomplished overachiever from the outside. People wonder how you do so many of the...
Read MoreTrevor Baptiste: The Improbable Rise Of A Burgeoning Lacrosse Legend
by Alejandro "Ali" Danois | Mar 12, 2019 | Mental Health & Culture, Sports & Culture | 0
One of the world’s best players, Trevor Baptiste didn’t have a single D-I scholarship offer heading into his senior year of high school. The remarkable story of Trevor Baptiste (known in elite lacrosse circles as...
Read MoreSAY THEIR NAMES
by Jaishree Ellis, MD | Jan 7, 2019 | Education, Youth, & Culture, Mental Health & Culture, Politics, Policy & Race | 0
“During a meeting with media on Thursday, Jazmine’s mother, LaPorsha Washington, provided a new description of the suspect. She said he was a white man with blue eyes…” (-abc13.com) As it turns out, Jazmine’s shooter is...
Read MoreWant Diversity? 15 Recruiting Tactics To Attract A Wider Range Of Candidates
by Donald Hatter | Dec 7, 2018 | Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
It’s been proven that when a team includes people of different genders, ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, etc., it produces more creative, innovative and effective results. That’s because...
Read More10 Steps To Check Your Final Quarter Mindset
by Adrienne Fikes, M.Ed., PCC | Oct 2, 2018 | Entrepreneurship & Business, Health and Well Being, Human Development, Living & Motivation, Mental Health & Culture | 0
Happy New Federal Fiscal Year and Final Quarter of 2018! As of today, there are only 13 Mondays left in 2018. That’s right! You only have thirteen weekend-ending work days to go before the next year of weekend-ending work days...
Read More30 Years After Straight Outta Compton, Ain’t Much Changed
by Alejandro "Ali" Danois | Sep 10, 2018 | Education, Youth, & Culture, Mental Health & Culture | 0
This week marks the 30th anniversary of N.W.A.’s debut album, Straight Outta Compton. The project shifted the paradigm in Hip-Hop, shining a light on and delving into an ever-expanding geographical reach outside of the...
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