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Given the last year or so, even those of us who are usually sources of support for others, may find ourselves feeling deplete of those things that keep up moving forward.

MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: Your skill set for well-being By Bill Mory Special to the Herald Democrat Good mental health is something that can be learned and practiced. Modern neuro science tells us that well-being is a different and learning how to play the guitar, tennis or learning your ABC’s. If we practice skills of well-being, we get better at it. Based on research by Richard Davidson, PhD, a neuroscientist and researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison, there are four basic skills that c...

MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: Mindful wellness By Bill Mory I have discussed a number of mindfulness techniques in this column from time to time, but recently I have discovered a wonderful assessment tool that helps us learn how to create for ourselves an environment of mindful self-care on a regular basis. I’m referring to behaviors that routinely improve our own, personal environment of self-care. The Mindful Self-Care Scale (MSCS) is an open access resource offered by the University of Buffalo. M...