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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Mother’s Day

Women today make up almost half of all workers in the United States. An increasing number of women are either the sole breadwinner for their family or share the role with their partners.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Rock ‘n’ roll and social change

To be an effective writer, every scribe knows they have to risk being transparent and honest. In this article you might figure out how old I am. As the saying goes, age is just a number.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Men and change

Guys like to take things apart and blow things up. During life, all guys need to tune themselves up, readjust their outlook, and psychologically recalibrate emotionally.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Children of suicide

One of my saddest memories as a trauma specialist was conducting a group therapy session for children.

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Eat like a heart doctor: Food is fuel to increase readiness

Health.mil sat down with Dr. Marc Alaric Franzos, a cardiologist at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, to explain what’s the best diet to eat overall and what foods warfighters should focus on to stay fit for the fight.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Self-management and stress

Regardless of one’s professional or social status or academic achievement in life, all humans have stress.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Resolving conflict

Decades ago, when I was a Federal Investigator with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., I attended numerous training courses. One of the most important courses was resolving conflict.

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Restore ‘care’ to primary care providers

“What can I do for you today?” my new primary care manager said, after tap-tap-tapping on and opening the door of the examining room at the Naval Health Clinic.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: The male challenge

Self-limits are imposed by habit. Some bad habits are connected to a negative self-image.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: You need courage to be yourself

The choices we make in connection with everyday thoughts, feelings, and behavior result in either successful management or mismanagement of our lives.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Life adjustments

When I was single, the bumper sticker on my car read: “Happiness is Being Single.”

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Psychological Maintenance

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius

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Unlock your health through the MHS Nurse Advice Line

Should you go to an urgent care clinic or the emergency room, or wait until your doctor’s office is open? Luckily, TRICARE has a service called the Military Health System Nurse Advice Line that can help when you need healthcare guidance.

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Mental Notes with Hilary Valdez: Finding inner peace

“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” -Sigmund Freud

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