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Understanding Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits
By Lindsay Engle Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance are not the easiest to understand. Even the application process can be beyond confusing for many people. But Medicare and Disability don't have to be confusing. Below are six things you should know...
3 Infused Water Recipes That Enhance Health
By Kriss Smolka You know drinking water is good for you, but there often comes a point where you want something more. You want color and additional flavors, as well as the possibility of making the water even healthier. Infused water is the solution. Infused water is...
Mindfulness for Minds Preoccupied by the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Ora Nadrich For several of us, we’ve finally gotten our wish to work from home. But it’s not for the reasons we had hoped. And, with the 24/7 news cycle focused on increasingly alarming news about the Coronavirus, we’re unable to focus on our work. In these...
6 Ways to Advocate for Your Child’s Special Needs
By Stephanie Duesing In January of 2017, my family and I discovered that our 15-year-old son Sebastian — a straight-A honor student, a painter, a sculptor, a potter and a water polo-player — was almost completely blind. We were going through old photos and realized...
Mannette Morgan: Author of Finding My Voice
By Mannette Morgan, Author of Finding Your Voice: A Path to Recovery for Survivors of Abuse As a little girl, I knew I wanted to be a writer “when I grew up.” The problem was, I couldn’t read or write. I realized at a young age that I didn’t learn like everyone...
What’s the Connection Between Hearing Loss and Dementia?
By Dr. Henry Mahncke It is increasingly well-documented that hearing loss is likely the largest modifiable risk factor for dementia — more important than quitting smoking, managing blood pressure, getting physical exercise or overcoming social isolation. This was...
How the Stigma Around Addiction is Hurting Society
By Paul Brethen, co-founder at SoberBuddy They did it to themselves. They made poor decisions. They weren’t strong enough to kick their dependency. These are just a few ways in which society as a whole has been taught to see addiction. Addiction has been portrayed...
Self-Help Journal: Put Your Feelings Here Book Review
By Christina Pires Everyone remembers being a teenager. Those seven years of adolescence filled with new friendships, endless possibilities and emotions — intense emotions. Emotions that are so frustrating one is at a loss as to how to express them, much less control...
The People United Will Never Be Defeated
By Annette Bay Pimentel Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins has been a disability advocate almost her entire life. At age 6, she had already been excluded from her neighborhood elementary school in Phoenix because of her wheelchair. Her family was unsure how to fight the...
Life With Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Chronicled in New Documentary
by David-Elijah Nahmod Nothing in Karina Ulrike Sturm's childhood prepared her for what was to come. The German native, who now lives in San Francisco with her husband, had a happy if uneventful childhood. It wasn't until she was 24 that Sturm began to notice the...