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Mental Health Awareness Month: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness
by Dr. Kristen Ray
While there’s growing acceptance of common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, overall, the stigma of mental illness still permeates our society. Depictions of the mentally ill in media are particularly troubling, as they’re too often hyperbolized and grossly altered to fit long-standing...
10 Things to Do This Weekend in Phoenix
The summer season is quickly approaching, and the Valley is heating up with dozens of decadent activities and events to attend that will surely make this a summer to remember. We’ve rounded up some of our very things to check out around the Valley this weekend, May 17 through May 19:
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10 Things to do This Weekend in Phoenix: Family Edition
Say hello to June with a weekend (May 31 to June 2) drenched in new experiences, thanks to the opening of Crayola Experience Chandler, the kick-off of Desert Botanical Garden's adored Flashlight Tours and the warm welcome of Mighty Mike to OdySea Aquarium.
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Crayola Experience Chandler
Arizona’s newest and most colorful family attraction, Crayola Experience Chandler, has opened its...
AZ Health: When a Picture Does Not Tell a Thousand Words
Families are struggling more today than ever. Parents’ external need to fulfill their own self-esteem through the lives of their children has become a dangerous cycle to the physical and mental health of their children and destroys the stability in the family system. Working with families provides family clinicians like myself the opportunity to see behind the curtain of the perfect photograph that is often an illusion of what is actually an extremely abusive, dysfunctional family system.
Families that are hiding patterns of addiction and abuse often use the smoke and mirrors of visual perfectionism in many everyday things that...
