Yep, you read that correctly. It’s Monday Sanity. Which, doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Saturday Sanity, but I left town early Friday morning and was unfortunately unable to give Saturday Sanity the attention it deserves. Rather than just wait until next weekend, however (there’s a lot of good, or at least thought-provoking, stuff to report!), I decided to present it a couple of days late.
Enjoy!
This week at Mental Health Notes, I praised Britney Spears and Kellie Pickler, pointed you in the direction of Ingrid Newkirk’s video about One Can Make a Difference, gushed on and on …read more

Back in September I gave you my review of Ingrid Newkirk’s new book, One Can Make a Difference, and how I thought the stories within the book can 1) help motivate readers to start taking action to make their own differences, and 2) help boost feelings of self-confidence, self-worth, and positivity.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but the day after I posted my review, PETA posted a video on their YouTube channel of Newkirk discussing One Can Make a Difference.
During the relatively quick video (it’s less than two minutes long, so, your lunch hour remains intact), Newkirk talks about …read more

When a representative from Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc. approached me about reviewing Ingrid E. Newkirk’s latest book, One Can Make a Difference: How Simple Actions Can Change the World, I didn’t hesitate to answer with an enthusiastic ‘yes!’.
Ingrid Newkirk, did you say? But isn’t she the founder of PETA? What’s PETA have to do with mental health?
Well, PETA really has nothing to do with mental health, directly (unless you count that whole thing with the letter to Britney Spears’s parents, the brain scan they offered Sharon Stone, the occasional mention of a pet’s mental health and the mental …read more