A simple habit of the daily practice of MEDS can help balance the stressors of your life.  MEDS stands for Meditation-Exercise-Diet-Sleep.  Some fear meditation, disliking silence, solitude, and being still.  Others resist because of anxieties about adequate  time or  expert technique. Trappist monk Fr Thomas Keating offered a refreshingly simple process for Meditation through Centering Prayer

The stigma associated with mental illness is now called “sanism.” Just like racism or sexism, it is a form of oppression and discrimination. And there is a lot of sanism and misinformation surrounding mental illness still present within our society. It’s up to us, the mental health community, to educate others and set the record straight.