Your Estate Plan: Insurance Life Cycle

 

It's A Family Affair

 As you gather with family and friends this holiday season, share this song from the iconic Sly and the Family Stone to set the mood for the event. Click the link below to hear this song. Enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/MbT_ask1Cco?si=wcff_Nhf37J8irWO

Encouraging Curiosity

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? The person that asks a thousand questions drives you crazy - right...before you loose your patience, know that they are practicing the gift of curiosity - the desire to find answers or learn. We are born curious. When we encourage curiosity we receive gifts of closeness, decreased anger, increased understanding, problem solving, humility, boredom relief, and elimination of the risk of selfishness. Give yourself and those around you permission to be creative.

Source: Murray Bowen, Patti Roscoe and Associates, Allina health

Hip Hop Psych

The psychology of hip hop presents another perspective of understanding life. Hip hop psychology utilizes music, lyrics, movement and positive imagery from hip hop culture to help those affected by mental stress from living in toxic environments.  People that identify with hip hop believe in peace, unity, love, community and fun as tools to restore the mind, family and neighborhood.                                              

A neuroscientist and psychologist have collaborated to create Hip Hop Psyche.  Hip hop music is rich with mental health reference related to addiction, psychosis, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and so on, as well as multiple environmental risk factors (e.g., urbanicity, poor nutrition, destructive parental influences resulting in childhood maltreatment  in the absence of positive role models) and predisposing genetic and epigenetic risk factors.  

Hip hop artists use their skills and talents not only to describe the world they see, but also as a means of breaking free.  There is often a message of hope in amongst the lyrics, describing the place where they want to be.