Articles & Updates
Glenn Miller, M.D. is a weekly contributor to the Santa Barbara News-Press. His column, Healthy Mind – Healthy Future, can be found every Saturday on page A2. The topics for the column are often initiated by personal questions from the readership audience.
Mental Wellness Center
“The task is not to become normal. The task is to take up your journey of recovery and to become who you are called to be.” ~Patricia E. Deegan I recently had the opportunity to meet and interview Annmarie Cameron, CEO and George Kaufmann, a board director, of the Mental Wellness Center to learn about their wonderful...
READ MORE“Sexting” – Sexual Text Messaging Part 1
Seriously, sexting is just wrong. You don’t know what you get yourself into until your ex breaks up with you and threatens to send your photos to everyone. Then it is when you finally feel like oh no what have I done. The feeling you get when you’re sending these pictures may make you feel happy, cool, excited, flirty, but when they are threatened...
READ MORE“Sexting” – Sexual Text Messaging Part 2
“Dangerous online interactions could be putting your child at serious risk, and if you don't know what your child is doing online you aren't prepared to deal with the consequences.” ~Anonymous In Part 1 of this two-part series the reader was presented with an overview of the disturbing trend amongst teenagers, and younger...
READ MORENeuronutrient Therapy
“Nutrition, which feeds the mind as well as the body, greatly influences how we perceive our world.” ~Unknown I recently had the opportunity to meet with a delightfully bright and impressive Neuronutrient Therapist, Vonda Schaefer, MFT, who has recently moved her practice here to Santa Barbara. To get more insight into...
READ MOREJuvenile Fire-Setting Part 1
"Fire itself is neither good nor evil, it is neutral. Its character is determined by the eye of the perceiver and the hand of the user." – Anonymous Arson/fire-setting is a serious and dangerous crime injuring and killing people, destroying property, and undermining neighborhoods. Yet, when we speak of juvenile...
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