The title of Neil Sedaka’s 1960 hit song perfectly captures how difficult and challenging it can be to end a relationship, as well as to adaptively grieve/mourn its end. Painful […] Read More »
At the end of April, we started a Zoom support group for health-care workers in our church. I had heard about the stresses they were going through with the spread […] Read More »
Say the word “deputy” and notice what comes to mind. One of the most familiar images is someone strong, standing between innocence and danger. We in law enforcement face so […] Read More »
The Stanford School of Business has students complete an exercise that offers an opportunity to examine personal impact, accomplishments and identity. The simple activity is composed of several questions designed […] Read More »
General George “Old Blood and Guts” Patton. Perhaps one of the most successful generals of World War II or of any war, for that matter — during a time of […] Read More »
Being “relieved of duty” signifies that an employee is under some form of investigation (e.g., administrative or criminal) for an incident that may be either work-related or non-work-related. Some examples […] Read More »
For everyone, the outbreak of COVID-19 has the potential to increase stress because of the fear of catching (or transmitting) the virus and because of uncertainty about how it will […] Read More »
I’m thinking of a disease that starts slow and gets worse and over time — taking not just weeks or months, but maybe even years before it develops into a […] Read More »
As I write this column, our country is going through an incredibly challenging time — certainly, one of the most challenging I have witnessed. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost […] Read More »
No one imagined the changes we would have to make and the challenges we would have to face when the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the spread of the […] Read More »
