“There is a need for wanting to talk about your loved one … wanting to cry when everybody else isn’t crying,” mused Rev. Faith Proietti. Today marks International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day, a day that falls on suicide awareness the Saturday before Thanksgiving each year. In this sense, this day not only gives voice […]
Rylan Lee, Thrive Correspondent
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Local veteran Duke Kornsuwan discusses a life of service
MANSFIELD — From 1987 to 1991, Mansfielder Duke Kornsuwan worked as a mechanic on military vehicles for the U.S. Army. He left for basic training less than a week after graduating high school. “That’s what I did straight out of high school. Three days after receiving my diploma, I was gone,” Kornsuwan recalled. As is […]
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Balanced nutrition fosters long-term cognition
From Harvard Health to WebMD, the topic of eating for your body and brain has been one circling, well, many minds. Whether it be the foods to eat the night before a big test or what to be putting on the menu in senior centers, there’s a curiosity in the zeitgeist about how what we […]
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Upcoming local events help support, educate parents of children with disabilities
The experience of the able-bodied and typically-functioning continues to serve as the baseline for much of the world in which we live. Those who fall outside that category have benefited from some progress, but there still exists a learning curve in discovering what both day-to-day and long-term life looks like. This learning curve exists not […]
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Altruistic acts better you mentally, physically
When most people think about volunteering, they think about giving – giving time, giving skills, giving help. But in truth, it seems giving back isn’t just about giving. It’s about getting, too. According to Dr. Blake Wagner, clinical psychologist and president of New Directions Counseling Center in Mansfield, “serving other people is such good medicine for ourselves.” […]