Emily Articulated: Efficiency, connection
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist What if efficiency sits at one end of a long spectrum — our ability to perform tasks or produce results with the least waste of time, resources or energy? We...
Tagged: Mental health
Mad about Science: Digital Addiction Part III
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist In the final installment of the “digital addiction” series, we will be looking at methods to combat social media and video game addiction, and the benefits to reducing screen time...
Mad about Science: Digital addiction part I
By Brenden BobbyReader Staff My partner and I recently had a jarring revelation that spawned from an awkward situation. She and a friend of hers had silently drifted away over the course of about...
My brain is shrinking; is yours?
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Whether you’re reading the news, writing the news, watching the news or surviving the events that make up the news, it’s currently impossible to live a stress-free life. That’s the...
Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness launches Hike-a-Day-May challenge
By Reader Staff As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness has launched Hike-a-Day-May, a monthlong walking challenge intended to foster community and get people outside. Participants register and log...
Emily Articulated: The score
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist In 2014, psychologist and author Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the Score, a nonfiction work exploring how traumatic experiences reshape the brain and body. Since its release,...
Idaho sheriffs worry Medicaid mental health cuts pose ‘significant public-safety concern’
By Kyle PfannenstielIdaho Capital Sun Idaho sheriffs are warning elected officials that new state Medicaid cuts to critical mental health services for people with severe mental illness could pose a public safety risk. A...
Chainsaw therapy
By Ben OlsonReader Staff “Ugh,” I sighed, slamming shut my laptop. It’s a common way to end a period of scanning national news stories. Between attempts to bypass our First Amendment rights, the president...
Feel It All screening and Q&A scheduled for Mental Health Week
Ethan Murray Fund hosts pro skier, documentary filmmaker and mental health advocate By Ben OlsonReader Staff You’ve likely heard this before from those visiting resort towns like Sandpoint: “It must be paradise to live...
Emily Articulated: The process
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist Another birthday came and went this week, and the way I celebrated it seemed to encapsulate everything I hope to carry forward into the year ahead. I was on the...
