Participating in peer-led support groups as a path toward depression recovery is empowering! Simple actions, encouragement, and regular participation can help you while you are also helping others. "Within these circumstances the shared experience with someone who has not only gone through a similar experience but who has ...    Read More »

2014, a new year. There is something about the word "new" that causes anyone to feel a rise of internal hope. As we are mid-way through the first month of the new year, some may be realizing that the resolutions that they decided upon are already too ambitious. Though the act of creating new year resolutions is essentially ...    Read More »

In this holiday season we encounter gatherings of people and food. With families, friends, co-workers, and other social gatherings, we celebrate each other in the presence of food. If you "google" holiday food recipes you find an endless plethora of sugary, fat-filled dishes. To the eye they look amazing, yet it is possible ...    Read More »

The change to daylight saving time in the fall confirms what many of us have been noticing for the last few months - our days are getting shorter, wetter and colder. For some of us with Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD this is a very tough time of the year.

If we have SAD or the milder version called the Winter ...    Read More »