Gen Z’s Sex Recession OH MY – July 16, 2025 - For her new book, journalist Carter Sherman interviewed over 100 young people about why they’re not having sex. She says they’re “very horny” but also more isolated, self-conscious, and fearfu... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionSexual Addictionteenagers
Black Patients Less Likely to Receive Treatment Referrals NOT JUST IN THE SOUTH – July 2, 2025 - Referrals for outpatient treatment after a suspected opioid overdose ranged from 8% to 44%, and Black patients were less likely to receive such a referral versus white patients,... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 08 2025life expectancy
Man’s Disability Caused Police to Arrest Him as a Drunk VIDEO – MISTAKEN IDENTITY – June 17, 2025 - Roger Lewis admits when Mt. Juliet police arrived on his call for help, he was in a real mess. Body camera footage showed the 66-year-old Hendersonville man stand... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 01 2025Mental Health
Trump Regime to SHUT DOWN LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline NOT SURPRISED? – June 18, 2025 - The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer use its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black called the decision “devastating,” adding, “Sui... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 01 2025suicideteenagers
Singing Is Good For Your Brain! HUMMING IS TOO – June 10, 2024 - If there is a song in your soul, sing it out loud — whether in your car on your morning commute or at karaoke with friends. It’s okay if you are not the next Taylor Swift. Ma... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJune 17 2025life expectancyMental Health
Wishing Things Were Different…Or Loving What Is? ACCEPTANCE is THE KEY? – June 6, 2025 - The transformative or transcendent potential of love has been reported for thousands of years. It’s been suggested as a means of connecting with the infinite, with what l... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJune 17 2025Mental Health
New York Locals Blast Church’s Plans to Build Mission for Addicts & Vagrants NOT VERY NEIGHBORLY – May 27, 2025 - West Villagers are up in arms over a church’s plan to build a new $11 million mission at a historic NYC street corner, arguing it would lure even more junkies and vagrants to the ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 03 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Meals on Wheels’ Marks Great First Year of Recovery Program VIDEO – NUTRITION MATTERS – May 26, 2025 - Meals on Wheels is making a difference in the lives of individuals recovering from substance abuse through a new program. Graduates of the program emphasize that the meals p... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionJune 03 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
The 42 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time WE ALL NEED A GOOD LAUGH – May 7, 2025 - A group of Vanity Fair’s writers and editors compiled a list of their own top 10 rom-coms. Then—after some number-crunching and establishing what met our unimpeachable r... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMay 20 2025Mental Health
Broken Heart Syndrome Still Deadly – Especially for Men VIDEO – SIRENS ARE REAL – May 15, 2025 - A large-scale U.S. study reveals that Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—also known as broken heart syndrome—continues to carry a high risk of death and severe complications, with... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMay 20 2025Mental Health
Person of the Week: Jami Lula Lending his voice and leadership in concert to youth groups and spiritual centers throughout the nation, Jami Lula has been honored by LA Music Awards (“Best Male Vocalist”), winner of the Centers for Spiritual Living “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 29 2025CompassionInterviewRecovery Advocate
Needle Exchange Program Feels Effects of Trump’s Aid Cuts DIRTY BUSINESS – April 3, 2025 - PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of people with drug ad... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 15 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductionintervention
36 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Became a Psychotherapist HE SHOULD KNOW – March 2025 - The aspiration of becoming a great or even just competent psychotherapist is, at its root, somewhat paradoxical. Over the past 15 years of daily practice I have learned that psycho... Read More...Apr 15 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental Health
I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 297,835 views since Jan 17, 2014 - My brother, a friend and I, saw Phil Ochs in Greenwich Village in 1964. We each bought an album from him. In 1977 I picked up a woman hitchhiking across... Read More...Apr 15 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiongrammy winner
Addiction Counselors Help Save Lives VIDEO – IT STARTS IN REHAB – April 3, 2025 - “People are literally dying from just taking a pill that they thought was regular pain medicine, and it’ll be fentanyl, and they’ll be dead,” said Stuart Bostwick. “We ha... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApr 08 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How the Arts Can Create Healthier Communities VIDEO – SING DANCE ACT – March 30, 2025 - According to thousands of studies, researchers have determined that involvement in the arts can improve public health and promote healing from illness, as well as protect ag... Read More...Apr 08 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental Health
Kitty Dukakis – Open About Her Addictions – Has Died HONESTY MATTERS – March 22, 2025 - Dukakis revealed she had overcome a 26-year addiction to amphetamines five years earlier after receiving treatment. She said she began taking diet pills at age 19. After Micha... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 01 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassion
Café Offers Job Training To Homeless VIDEO – FEEL GOOD – March 26, 2025 - We’d like to introduce you to Change Please Coffee, a local coffee shop that is doing good in the community by helping people get back on their feet. They are a social enterprise ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 01 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionhomeless
Shame Can’t Have More Power Than Love GRIEF – March 20, 2025 - It’s stunning that it took the death of someone I love dearly to show me how deeply fear and shame are embedded in the way we treat people with an addiction. One year ago this month, police f... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 25 2025Mental HealthTrauma
Free 10 MINUTE Consult for Federal Employees Facing Job Loss IF THIS IS YOU—CALL TODAY – March 20, 2025 - The emotional burden of losing a job can be compounded by complex family dynamics, relationship struggles, and addiction issues. Scott Silverman specializes in crisi... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 25 2025Mental Health
Recovery Cards Have Messages of Hope SPREADING THE WORD – March 12, 2025 - The Recovery Card Project was created over five years ago and more than 150,000 cards have since been distributed. According to Shadia Lemus, BHA marketing supervisor, the projec... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 18 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocatesobriety
Sinead O’Connor & Van Morrison Sing “Have I Told You Lately?” VIDEO – THAT I LOVE YOU – 1,626,804 views - (From “Late Show” in London, 5/17/95) - WOW! This is amazing to see. For anyone that doesn’t know, not only are Van and Sinead 2 Irish legends but The Chieftains are some o... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiongrammy winnerMar 18 2025
The Wholeness That Emerges From Brokenness By Ken Druck Ph.D. WORTH EVERY HEARTACHE – March 5, 2025 - The path forward from brokenness and inconsolable sorrow is not about “moving on,” “recovering,” or “getting over” our loss, but about patiently allowing our brokenness to beco... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 11 2025Mental Health
“HEROES UKRAINE” Music Video Bowie x Ukraine… WATCH – SAVE LIVES – NOW - All-star ensemble features Grammy performer Mika Newton, Eurovision stars @alyonaalyona @JERRY_HEIL @MikeGarsonProductions The piece is directed & produced by Grammy winner Rupert... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 11 2025
Tragic Stories Show Need for ‘compassionate intervention’ SAVE-A-SOUL – Feb. 24, 2025 - It’s not often a reporter signs in to a government news conference on the hunt for scandal, but ends up with a broken heart. That’s how it felt for me when Premier Danielle Smith anno... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMar 04 2025
Gabor Maté on Why Modern Life is Breaking Us – Hurt to Healing AUDIO – THE MASTER SPEAKS – Feb. 10, 2025 - Welcome to a brand new series of the Hurt to Healing Podcast! In this powerful first episode, I am honoured to be joined by Dr. Gabor Maté—renowned addiction expert, speake... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025InterviewMental Health
‘Love Addiction’ Linked to Emotional Dependence LIKE A BABY AT THE FONT – Feb. 17, 2025 - Romantic involvement with a partner can sometimes exhibit dysfunctional traits similar to addictive behaviours, a phenomenon known as emotional dependence on the partner or “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025Mental Health
What Would An Ideal Friend Be Like? Perfectly Imperfect – Feb. 18, 2025 - Some of the reason why we aren’t, collectively, so good at friendship, is that we don’t have a clear idea of what a really good friend might be like. It may therefore be worth tr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025Mental Health
How a community rallied for trans and nonbinary recovery homes after LA fires VIDEO – STICKING TOGETHER – Feb. 20, 2025 - “At 6:49 p.m., I got the first phone call that there were flames and fire, fire within blocks from the Start House, which is a 20-bed facility in Altadena, and so we sent ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Remembering Jenna Tatro VIDEO – IN MEMORIUM – Feb. 14, 2025 - An addiction recovery organization is remembering the woman who inspires their work. CONTINUE@WCAX ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 18 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab