Mary Beth Covert
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...
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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...
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Mary Beth Covert
- May 10, 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.
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Mary Beth Covert
- Dec 23, 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...
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Mary Beth Covert
- Oct 24, 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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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