I imagine the short paragraph from Jeremiah Burroughs landed like it did that morning, in part, because my 2-year-old had just thrown an entire bowl of cereal on the floor — again. An exceedingly small affliction, to be sure, but not an exceedingly small mess (or an exceedingly rare one, for that matter). Unbeknownst to…
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Whether your beauty routine simply includes sunscreen and a scrunchie or…
ProSomnus Inc presented data at two recent conferences that it says further validate precision oral appliance therapy (OAT) for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). ProSomnus presented four abstracts at the 2023 American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM) Annual Meeting, held May 19-21 in Philadelphia, and two abstracts at the American Thoracic Society…
Years ago, we were doing some strategic planning at the church I had founded in Queens, NY. We were reflecting on what contributed to our growth over a 26 year period. A single word kept reappearing on the whiteboard – “BASEMENT”. How did we disciple so many quality leaders, many of whom are still leading…
Axsome Therapeutic Inc will present data on Sunosi (solriamfetol), including results from the SHARP study, at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) Annual Meeting, being held from May 30 to June 3 in Miami. According to the company, Sunosi is demonstrating improvement in cognitive function in patients with excessive daytime sleepiness associated with obstructive…
Researchers at Uppsala University investigated how junk food affects sleep and found that it may negatively impact deep sleep. For the study, healthy participants consumed an unhealthier as well as a healthier diet in a randomized order. After the unhealthier diet, the quality of the participants’ deep sleep had deteriorated, compared with those who had…
With five children between the ages of 19 and 8, my wife, Julia, and I are nearly two decades into our journey as parents. When you add two dogs, two cats, and an “Alexa” to the mix, the kitchen often feels like feeding time at a zoo, in the middle of a nightclub. Yet beneath…
Date and Time June 14, 202312:30–2:00 p.m. ET Overview Trauma-related psychiatric disorders such as PTSD and depression affect more than twice as many women as men. Women are also more likely to experience a chronic illness that persists for more than a year. Despite the evidence of sex differences in the epidemiology of trauma-related disorders, little…
Do you want to know an inside secret about sermons? You may have noticed it already. If you haven’t, you probably will from now on. Here’s the secret: Preachers often like to begin with an image, story, word, phrase, or Bible passage, and then return to it at the end of the sermon. Those bookends…
Audio Transcript Welcome back to the podcast on this Memorial Day here in the United States, a day when we remember and honor soldiers who died while serving in the armed forces. War has been on the forefront of many minds here in the past fifteen months. No matter how close or far we are…