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    Coping During Crisis: 15 Strategies for Dealing with Coronavirus Stress
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Apr 9, 2020
    • 9 min

    Coping During Crisis: 15 Strategies for Dealing with Coronavirus Stress

    As the COVID-19 pandemic crisis continues, we can all benefit from taking a closer look at our coping skills; by doing what we can in the...
    104 views
    Parents: We Don't Have to be Perfect During the Coronavirus Crisis, but We Need to be Present
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    Parents: We Don't Have to be Perfect During the Coronavirus Crisis, but We Need to be Present

    For: Tennessean - Part of the USA Today Network Since schools have closed, I’ve seen color-coded schedules for homeschooling popping up...
    16 views
    Mother’s Day Manifesto: 
A Rallying Cry to Broaden Mother’s Day
    Mary Beth Covert
    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Mother’s Day Manifesto: A Rallying Cry to Broaden Mother’s Day

    We diminish Mother’s Day when we reduce it to a nice brunch and a potted plant for a select few.
    423 views
    A Year With Cancer: 
Ringing Bells & Light Through The Cracks
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Dec 24, 2018
    • 4 min

    A Year With Cancer: Ringing Bells & Light Through The Cracks

    It was December last year when I got news about my cancer. I sat in the glow of twinkling lights, my heart doing its best to stretch into...
    156 views
    We Can Do More: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Oct 25, 2018
    • 2 min

    We Can Do More: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

    As a recent breast cancer survivor, it is stunningly clear that I stand on the shoulders of fierce women. It was the year after I...
    29 views
    When You’re In-Between
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Sep 10, 2018
    • 4 min

    When You’re In-Between

    Have you ever found yourself in an in-between space? A door shut solidly behind, you squint to make out shapes with the leftover light...
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    When Joy Feels Scary: 6 Resilience-Building Practices
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Aug 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    When Joy Feels Scary: 6 Resilience-Building Practices

    For: Psychcentral: Mental Health Library After we’ve been given a “clean bill of health,” finished settling the estate, come home from...
    196 views
    It Matters
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Jan 22, 2018
    • 3 min

    It Matters

    The first few days after I was diagnosed I thought to myself, “Ok, cancer… I might be able to squeeze you in around the edges.” As if...
    19 views
    A Journey With Cancer
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Jan 2, 2018
    • 2 min

    A Journey With Cancer

    This was us on 12/3/17, on our way to a friend’s Christmas concert. On 12/4/17, I received biopsy results that I have breast cancer. Big...
    28 views
    6 Reasons to Reconsider Group Therapy
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Aug 23, 2017
    • 1 min

    6 Reasons to Reconsider Group Therapy

    For: Psychcentral: Mental Health Library “I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.”...
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    4 Ways To Help A Hurting Friend
    Mary Beth Covert
    • Aug 17, 2016
    • 1 min

    4 Ways To Help A Hurting Friend

    For: RELEVANTmagazine.com A couple of years ago my life was upended. You probably know the type of thing I’m referring to—a major loss, a...
    21 views

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