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June is PTSD Awareness Month, and one of the most important things to say upfront is this: PTSD is not only something that happens to veterans. It can happen to anyone who has lived through something that overwhelmed their capacity to cope. Car accidents. Childhood abuse. A difficult birth. Sexual assault. A sudden loss. A medical emergency. Witnessing violence. Living with chronic unpredictability or fear. The list is longer than most people realize, and so is the number of people quietly...

May 11 through 17 is Mental Health Awareness Week, and if you have been waiting for a reason to check in with yourself, this is as good a one as any. Here is something worth knowing: mental health is not a thing you either have or do not have. It is more like a dial than a light switch. Most of us are somewhere in the middle most of the time, managing stress, navigating relationships, trying to keep things together. The goal is not perfection. The goal is awareness. This year's theme is about...

April is National Stress Awareness Month, which has been observed since 1992. The original idea wasn't to pile on. It was to get people to stop treating stress like it's just part of the deal. And yet here we are. Most of us have gotten very good at functioning under chronic stress. Too good, really. We adapt, we adjust, we keep going, and at some point the stress stops feeling like stress and just starts feeling like life. That's worth pausing on. The first quarter of the year carries its...