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Stages of Change - Why We Fail Living Large Coaching and Counseling is mental health resource blog focused on life coaching, counseling, personal growth, health, and spirituality.

New Yorkers deserve real access to mental health care. Right now, Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs) are often excluded from insurance panels and Medicaid, creating unnecessary barriers to care. In our latest op-ed, Assemblymember Harry Bronson and I explain why including LCATs is a common-sense step to expand access and strengthen our mental health workforce statewide. Read more: https://empirereportnewyork.com/new-york-is-facing-a-mental-health-crisis-and-too-many-new-yorkers-still-cannot-access-the-care-they-need/

Free Trauma Awareness Training For educators and youth-serving professionals.

Understanding trauma can help heal. Suggested reading:

Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With , she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises an...

Stimulating The Vagus Nerve May Reverse Chronic Inflammation As one of the most primitive parts of our nervous system, the vagus nerve controls many aspects of the body that are outside our conscious control.

What The Vagus Nerve Is And How To Stimulate It For Better Mental Health Healthy vagal tone means emotional regulation, greater connection, and better physical health as well.

Control Your Vagus Nerve to Improve Mood, Alertness & Neuroplasticity In this episode I explain how your vagus nerve—an extensive neural pathway linking your brain and body in both directions—powerfully regulates your mood, dig...

The New York State Office for the Aging has just announced MyRosalie, a new peer support service available to Monroe County older adults and their caregivers. Funding for this service is provided by the NYSOFA through September 2026.

MyRosalie offers virtual and phone-based peer support through Kindly Human, in partnership with the Association on Aging, the New York State Office for the Aging, and the Monroe County Office for the Aging. Services include up to 240 minutes of peer support per month, 24/7 availability, group workshops, and fully private, confidential conversations.

To refer someone or learn more, contact Leanne Rorick at MCOFA at (585) 753-6517, or register at:
https://www.kindlyhuman.io/agingny

11-25 Update on HRT & FDA Guidelines

Coronavirus Daily - FDA reverses decades of guidance on hormone therapy for menopause The FDA is removing the black box warning on estrogen therapy after two decades. Should it?Women who want to use estrogen to treat menopause symptoms often face a difficult choice....

https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/2025/07/25/all-things-considered-for-july-25-2025

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5477644/menopause-hormone-therapy-fda-health

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