When you go to bed, are you one of the lucky people can simply turn off the lights and drift into dreamland? Or are you, like millions of other Americans, struggling to fall asleep? In Part One of this Two-Part exploration into Sleep and it’s effects on Mental Health, Dr. Rajesh Balagani explains why sleep…
Following her cancer treatment, Jessica Storm was excited to get back to the usual hustle and bustle. With a new baby at home, normalcy would’ve been a welcome routine, if not for a fateful call from her oncologist when she discovered that her cancer journey was far from over. In this follow-up from Part 1,…
Bad news is never easy to hear, especially when it concerns the ones you love. But when you receive a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, what do you do? That’s what Jessica Storm faced when she was diagnosed with breast cancer while 28 weeks pregnant, along with the flurry of challenging decisions and difficult moments…
Compassion Fatigue affects millions of caretakers around the world, but what can be done about it? Philip Chard digs into the solutions that have proven effective in organizations around the country, for both the personal and the professional, to reveal how activities as simple as singing in the car can help to bolster emotion and…
What is Compassion Fatigue? This week on OnTopic with Empathia, host Kelly Parbs introduces herself and her guest, psychotherapist and author Philip Chard, to explain just how Compassion Fatigue begins to affect caregivers in all walks of life, both personal and professional, and reveal a few ways you can identify susceptibility and avoid what he…