Author Archives: Karen Bermel LIMHP, MC

As you can see by this blog’s title, our topic is about getting and staying healthy from a mental-health perspective. Quite often, we hear about how to stay physically healthy – good nutrition, decent sleep, some exercise – those types of things really do help us all work toward or maintain good physical health. What’s really interesting to me is that some of the very same things that help us stay physically fit can help us stay mentally fit. Good nutrition, decent sleep, and some reasonable exercise can help each … Continue reading →

I had many great suggestions this week regarding what to blog about. For those who recommended I blog about grief and loss, PTSD, marital struggles, and other topics I give you a big thank you! I will do my best to write on those topics in the near future. The topic of bullying, however, came up quite a bit this week – so that’s where this blog is headed. Conflict, as most of us know, is a normal part of life. As adults, we are often faced with various frustrations … Continue reading →

Alegent Health is blessed to have several excellent medication providers and therapists who work with adolescents. As you can imagine, there are so many challenges to being in junior high and high school these days: grades, friends, dating, sex, family situations – there are so many internal and external influences. Anyone who is the parent of an adolescent knows exactly what I’m talking about. Adolescence can be a very rich and rewarding time for our kids. They are making changes physically and mentally, and preparing to enter into the world … Continue reading →

Hello again everyone. I hope this blog finds you doing well with this amazing weather we’re having. This morning I received an email for some training here at Alegent for behavioral and mental-health care providers called Motivational Interviewing. One of the great things about Alegent Health is that we are constantly making sure we are keeping up with the best ways to help patients get well and stay well. Mental Health here at Alegent is no different. To be a mental-health provider requires ongoing training – being open to life-long … Continue reading →

I am writing this on a day when it might actually hit 71 or 72 degrees! It’s amazing to me how the weather in the Midwest can be so unpredictable. I think I mentioned in one of my very first blogs that I lived in the Phoenix area for about 18 years. I rarely, if ever, checked the weather report there. It was either sunny and warm, or sunny and hot. Very predictable weather in that part of the country. Here in the Midwest, look out! Things can change quickly. … Continue reading →