The Lifeworks Group, Inc.

By: Brian Murray LMHC, NCC We are born into an unpredictable and weird world. For centuries we have been building a pattern of how life should go, in order to create a sense of normalcy. We are born, go through school, perhaps college or join the military, get married, build a family and work on our career or craft. Occasionally events happen that disrupt this flow such as a recession or a virus pandemic. So, what does this have to do with running out of toilet paper? Actually there is a simple reason that involves a more complicated answer. The simple reason is fear. The complicated answer to why shelves were emptied of toilet paper during Covid-19 has more to do with our first 2 years of life than it does with Covid-19 itself.     When we are born, we are in a constant state of trying to figure out the world we live in. Basically, an infant is trying to figure out if their world is safe. This sense of safety is achieved when they cry, and someone comes to their aid. It...

By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, CLC How Financial Fears Hurt Your Health and Can Cause Slow Suicide Coronavirus can destroy your health, and sadly can destroy your life. Not as a primary impact of the disease, since most patients tested positive for COVID-19 recover. No, as a secondary threat – slow suicide.  If the concept is new to you, slow suicide describes the passive self-destructive behaviors that erode physical and mental health. Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opioids, illegal use of prescriptions, junk food and addictive behaviors like gambling, pornography, spending or compulsive overeating. Americans know they should not eat, drink, watch or consume unhealthy things, yet during COVID-19 isolation many will skip the healthy behaviors Surgeon General Jerome Adams is begging them to do with social distancing to save life and choose instead to slowly weaken their own.  To decide to die by your own hand is not a new problem in America. Suicide is the #10...