Teen alcohol and drug use keeps declining www.axios.com/2024/12/30/t…Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter ? — Canada Healthwatch ? (@canadahealthwatch.bsky.social) 2024-12-31T04:25:31.559Z
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Teen Alcohol Use Declining
Teen alcohol and drug use keeps declining www.axios.com/2024/12/30/t…Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter ? — Canada Healthwatch ? (@canadahealthwatch.bsky.social) 2024-12-31T04:25:31.559Z
Saturday Snap – Growing Pin Collection
There’s a non-zero chance that my enamel pin addiction is related to a mental illness. 😉
Friday Fun Link – Guys, Where Do You Pee?
(via Reddit)
Wisdom Wednesday – Let’s Stop Calling It Burnout and Start Calling It What It Really Is
@hendycreek Burn out is really just your body and mind catching up with the fact that the world has been expecting too much of you because late stage capitalism has ingrained in us the need to constantly be working – both professionally and personally. #burnout #capitalism ? original sound – Hendy Creek
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Grandma, My Mom and My Daughter (June 2022, July 2000)
Lots can change in two short years or in twenty… I didn’t really have to change the inscription in the coffee table book of prairie photos I gave my Grandma Hammond when she moved into the Golden Prairie Nursing Home in Indian Head when my mom moved into the same facility – just had to […]
Wisdom Wednesday – Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Work
In essence, organizations focus wrongly on trying to “fix” individuals (I-Frame) rather than the systemic (S-Frame) issues that create or exasperate mental health issues for staff.
Secular Sunday – You’re Not Special But You Are Fucking Lucky
It’s been a tough year in a lot of ways – maybe the toughest of my life – but it’s ending on multiple up notes and either way, still better than none at all as my dad always says!
Music Monday – “So I’ll go but I’m telling you/I don’t wanna go/Could be stuck here and happy/So there’s a puzzle I work on endlessly/And I’ve got the sides and all the corners/But there’s a space/Yeah there’s a space/Lost some pieces I can’t replace/So I’ll be but I’m telling you/I don’t wanna be/Just a wasted puzzle piece”
I posted this song in August 2012 after hearing it on Community Radio one morning. Who knew that twelve years later, it would be so relevant to my life with elderly parents including one with dementia… “Basket” – Dan Mangan (I don’t think I’ve ever done this before but here are the song lyrics in […]