Cutting off contact with your ex after a breakup is necessary for your growth. By John Kim LMFT There are several important reasons to cut off contact and create boundaries after a…
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What if the Person You Need to Set Boundaries With Is Yourself?
by Jennifer Gerlach LCSW It’s more about self-love than self-control. KEY POINTS A lady used to tell me the worst things. She would shout my fears as I tried to…
Is Your Activism Solutionary?
by Zoe Weil M.A., M.T.S You can make a bigger difference while leading a happier life. KEY POINTS If you’re like me, there are a lot of issues in our…
Crime special session will make communities less safe
By Congressman Troy Carter From the Advocate In 2017, Louisiana decided that being the incarceration capital of the world had not made it safer, and that it was time to…
4 Essential Qualities of the Very Best Work Teams
What do the best work teams do that goes above and beyond? by Ronald E. Riggio Ph.D. KEY POINTS A good work team is productive, stable, and satisfied. A great…
Jeff Landry’s Trope-a-Dope
Louisiana’s Republican governor sees Blue Cross Blue Shield sale as an opportunity to purge the state Medicaid rolls Robert Mann READ IN APP Gov. Jeff Landry says he…
Landry’s Rejection of Summer Food Stamp program for Poor Children is Next-Level, Evil-Genius Policy Making
by THE NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE It should appall everyone, but it does not surprise us U.S. Rep. Troy A. Carter, Sr., has called out Gov. Jeff Landry on his decision to…
How to Become a More Positive Thinker
by Monica Vermani C. Psych. Try this step-by-step process for cleaning up your negative thoughts. KEY POINTS Everything ever imagined, created, or achieved was first thought. Positive or negative thoughts…
Our Five Inborn Hungers
by Alphonsus Obayuwana M.D., Ph.D., CPC The key to understanding humanity. KEY POINTS If you allow me to define hunger as a compelling desire, it could then be said that every one…
Black men face many more health hurdles
An expert discusses why. Story by Steven Petrow Black men face many more health hurdles. Social epidemiologist Roland Thorpe Jr. is on a double mission: to improve the health and extend the…