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How Art Can Improve Your Mental Health

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde

When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem.

“All that chatter that is in my head, everything that I’ve been feeling, I can now just put it on paper and my pen can do the talking,” he said, recalling his thoughts at the time.

Back then, he was struggling with depression and had been relying on a number of things to keep it at bay, including running, therapy, medication and his faith.

“I had to find something else to fill the void,” he said. It turned out that poetry was the missing piece in his “wellness puzzle.”

“I saw an improvement in my mood,” said Dr. Clark, who now sees patients in Greer, S.C. “It gave me another outlet.”

The notion that art can improve mental well-being is something many people intuitively understand but can lose sight of

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Energy, Weight Control, and More

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde

Breakfast kick-starts your metabolism, helping you burn calories throughout the day. It also gives you the energy you need to get things done and helps you focus at work or at school. Those are just a few reasons why it’s the most important meal of the day.

Many studies have linked eating breakfast to good health, including better memory and concentration, lower levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol, and lower chances of getting diabetes, heart disease, and being overweight.

It’s hard to know, though, if breakfast causes these healthy habits or if people who eat it have healthier lifestyles.

But this much is clear: Skipping the morning meal can throw off your body’s rhythm of fasting and eating. When you wake up, the blood sugar your body needs to make your muscles and brain work their best is usually low. Breakfast helps replenish it.

If your body doesn’t get that

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Common Divorce Questions and Answers

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde
As a divorce coach I work every day with brave women and men willing to take on the significant stress and disruption of divorce rather than settle for the status quo in a relationship that is no longer working. Many people ask me common divorce questions like if they’re having a mid-life crisis, if they’re doing the right thing, if their kids will ever forgive them, and how to begin the divorce process.

But surprisingly, the number-one question I get is not any of those above. Rather, the most common divorce question I receive is: “What did I do wrong in my marriage to find myself here?” And it comes from everyone—men and women, those who’ve initiated the divorce process and those who were shocked by their spouse’s desire to split. I even hear it from those who’ve taken months or years to gather the courage and resources necessary

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