
Screen Time to Green Time: How to Rebalance
Our biorhythms are out of sync due to our reliance on technology. It is time for a reset to balance out our screen time with green time.

The Best Breakup Songs for Your Mental Health
Music helps us process our emotions, empathize with others dealing with heartache, and even provide ways to move on when we just can’t seem to. Breakup songs are so popular because they are convenient and timeless. Listening to and playing music reduces chronic stress...

The NFL and Mental Health
Mental health awareness has started to make waves the last few years in professional sports. Just earlier this year, Simone Biles - the greatest gymnast of all time - chose to withdraw from the team final competition at the Olympics, citing that she needed to focus on...

No Wrong Door to the Right Therapy
Everyone benefits from therapy, but not every person should see the same therapist. If this enriching relationship is going to be life-altering, it ought to be a good fit. Think back to those colorful shaped pegs from your childhood. No matter how hard you tried, the...

Settling the Patient vs. Client Debate
What are those little bugs with the glowing bootys? Lightning bugs or fireflies? How about that thing your grandparents like to do on the weekends where they buy random things they definitely don’t need? Is that a garage sale or a yard sale? Or what do you put on your...

Physician-led Airline Medicine
Psychiatrists are incredibly good at innovating solutions to unusual problems. Dr. Dixon has encountered managing a seizure on-board a plane. Social media is full of examples of burned-out physicians having to continue their work at 40,000 feet, while on vacation,...

Anti-MSO = Support, Not Control
Management services organizations seem like the perfect opportunity to help with the administrative, non-medical work involved in running a practice. Freeing up physicians to actually spend their working hours treating and helping patients instead of doing...

Prior Authorization is Nightmarish
Every second counts in managing your practice because the focus is always on the end user (client, patient, customer, etc.). In building an efficient practice, accounting for every second is vital. Anything that wastes time hurts you and your client/patient/customer....

New Year’s Resolutions and Your Mental Health
Everybody loves New Year’s; it’s a time to reflect on how far we’ve come, while looking to the future with a clean slate to make the most of the upcoming year. Over a quarter of Americans are still interested in setting New Year’s resolutions according to various...
Need psychiatry NOW! “Urgent” versus “Emergent”
To help maintain the sanity of our patients and our staff, we share this concept with our Mindful patients for educational purposes only. Mindful is NOT an emergency clinic. This blog is not medical advice nor does it list individual treatment options. Instead, the...
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Screen Time to Green Time: How to Rebalance
Our mental health has never just been us. Nature has always been a part of our well-being, and connecting with the great outdoors is paramount to our overall wellness. With the rise of technology (and especially these little supercomputers stowed away in our pockets),...
The Best Breakup Songs for Your Mental Health
Music helps us process our emotions, empathize with others dealing with heartache, and even provide ways to move on when we just can’t seem to. Breakup songs are so popular because they are convenient and timeless. Listening to and playing music reduces chronic stress...
The NFL and Mental Health
Mental health awareness has started to make waves the last few years in professional sports. Just earlier this year, Simone Biles - the greatest gymnast of all time - chose to withdraw from the team final competition at the Olympics, citing that she needed to focus on...
No Wrong Door to the Right Therapy
Everyone benefits from therapy, but not every person should see the same therapist. If this enriching relationship is going to be life-altering, it ought to be a good fit. Think back to those colorful shaped pegs from your childhood. No matter how hard you tried, the...
Settling the Patient vs. Client Debate
What are those little bugs with the glowing bootys? Lightning bugs or fireflies? How about that thing your grandparents like to do on the weekends where they buy random things they definitely don’t need? Is that a garage sale or a yard sale? Or what do you put on your...
Physician-led Airline Medicine
Psychiatrists are incredibly good at innovating solutions to unusual problems. Dr. Dixon has encountered managing a seizure on-board a plane. Social media is full of examples of burned-out physicians having to continue their work at 40,000 feet, while on vacation,...
Anti-MSO = Support, Not Control
Management services organizations seem like the perfect opportunity to help with the administrative, non-medical work involved in running a practice. Freeing up physicians to actually spend their working hours treating and helping patients instead of doing...
Prior Authorization is Nightmarish
Every second counts in managing your practice because the focus is always on the end user (client, patient, customer, etc.). In building an efficient practice, accounting for every second is vital. Anything that wastes time hurts you and your client/patient/customer....
New Year’s Resolutions and Your Mental Health
Everybody loves New Year’s; it’s a time to reflect on how far we’ve come, while looking to the future with a clean slate to make the most of the upcoming year. Over a quarter of Americans are still interested in setting New Year’s resolutions according to various...
Need psychiatry NOW! “Urgent” versus “Emergent”
To help maintain the sanity of our patients and our staff, we share this concept with our Mindful patients for educational purposes only. Mindful is NOT an emergency clinic. This blog is not medical advice nor does it list individual treatment options. Instead, the...