by Teresa Marie Walters | Dec 8, 2022 | Alternative Mental Health Model, Christian Faith, Emotional Health, Family Systems, Healthy Living, Relational Health, Spirituality
It’s an iconic scene. A sad and emotionally distressed Charlie Brown seeks psychiatric advice from Lucy, and Lucy, as any reasonable professional would, sets about trying to find a label to adequately categorize his symptoms. After running through a number of possible...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Feb 18, 2022 | Christian Faith, Emotional Health, Healthy Living, Spirituality
Not too many years past, a marketing campaign proclaimed, “You are what you eat.” The premise being that the food choices we make have a profound impact on our physical bodies and dictate to a large extent the quality of our health and well-being. I...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Dec 19, 2020 | Emotional Health, Healthy Living, Relational Health
I’m just old enough to remember a time when an attempt to manage the life of another was likely to be met with a resounding…mind your own business! People didn’t take kindly to others freely, or intrusively, offering their opinion about what they should or should not...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Apr 16, 2020 | Alternative Mental Health Model, Christian Faith, Emotional Health, Trauma
For a country attempting to collectively catch its breath, even subtle signs of hope are a welcome relief. These moments of optimism restore confidence and allow people to forge a new vision of life and the future. As the nation begins to jointly exhale and entertain...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Mar 27, 2020 | Alternative Mental Health Model, Emotional Health, Healthy Living
If you’ve been feeling a little anxious in the midst of the current state of affairs, you might take comfort in knowing that you are having a very normal reaction to an abnormal set of circumstances. It is completely normal to experience a wide range of emotional...
by Teresa Marie Walters | Mar 16, 2020 | Emotional Health, Healthy Living, Relational Health
There seems to be an ongoing effort in this country to pathologize just about every reaction, response, distress or experience to which a human being can be exposed. If I hadn’t read it myself, I would have thought the article I recently reviewed about the development...