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We all make mistakes, but when it comes to mistakes in marketing and advertising, they can literally cost you. In this two-part column, we’ll review 18 of the most common marketing and advertising mistakes made by mental health professionals.

Now what is shame. We hear it from time to time but honestly a lot of people confuse shame with guilt. And it can get tricky to differentiate between the two sometimes.

The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP; energypsych.org) categorizes energy therapies by the energy systems of the body: chakras, meridians and biofield (aura). In another blog, we will review the chakras and biofield; this post will provide an overview of the meridians.

Ever thought about who invented FOMO? Personally, I never really did. It just wasn’t a thing and then it was a thing and I never really questioned it. Kind of assumed it was some trendy teenager that came up with the term. But it wasn’t. The term FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) was invented by Harvard MBA graduate Patrick J. McGinnisto to assist in business decision making (man did that intention go awry).

May is packed full of all the alliterations related to the letter “M” that you can think of! We as a society seem to think that packing our schedules is the next keeping up with the Joneses.

Complementary and alternative modalities (CAM) are health approaches that often combine treatments from Western and Eastern cultures. Examples of CAM approaches include yoga, meditation, mindfulness, acupuncture, Reiki, nutrition, and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), among many others.

Have you ever played Chess? It is a wonderful game that deals with risk, strategy, acumen, and of course the blind side. Chess is a great representation of life in that it teaches us not to be too complacent and risk averse and at the same time not too jeopardous.

Your palms get sweaty, you feel that lump in your throat, you know you need to say something, but it just never feels like the right time. You don’t know where to start, but you know if you could just get that first word out it would all be better, but you just can’t. So, you hold it in, and you hold it in and then you hold it in a little bit more, until you can’t.

Complementary, alternative and integrative therapies are a group of diverse medical, healing and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered a part of conventional therapy or medicine. These combine treatments from conventional approaches to health and healing for which there is some high-quality evidence of safety and effectiveness.

Mother’s Day is a Hallmark tradition in which mothers are honored and revered, but underneath the cards and flowers lies a rarely talked about conversation that asks; who is taking care of mom?