How to make meaningful change Part 2
Ask a Mental Health Professional Installment No. 8
By Earle Irwin
Question: How do we use what we are learning from Hurricane Dorian and the pandemic...
Health and Wellness: Chocolate, a health food?
October 2013
By TL Grace West
Those of us who adore chocolate are pleased with more and more research showing health benefits of eating chocolate: especially...
Turning seclusion into something productive
Ask a mental health professional
By Earle Irwin
Question: For those of us who live alone, this seclusion required by COVID-19 restrictions can be very lonely....
How do you approach someone with a substance abuse problem?
Ask a Mental Health Professional Installment #6
By Earle Irwin
Question: What do you do if someone you love is drinking too much, but doesn’t see...
Why do we feel so good on Ocracoke?
By TL Grace West
What is it about Ocracoke Island that contributes to what sometimes is called “Ocracoma,” feeling relaxed and “oh so good?”
Growing scientific...
The mammogram bus is coming to Ocracoke
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Invision Diagnostics of Charlotte will bring its the Mobile Breast Center to Ocracoke to...
Health & Wellness: Assembly of God Church
May 2013
By Terrilynn Grace West
This is the second in a series addressing spiritual wellness, featuring churches on Ocracoke. Last month I wrote about...
Feeling too blue? Professional help is available
Part I of II
October 2014
By T.L. Grace West
Part of living on an island means tuning into the weather and to each other.
There is a...
How to weather this latest storm
By Earle Irwin
Between post-Dorian recovery and COVID-19, many on Ocracoke are asking, “How much more can we take?”
While this article does not answer that...
How to get a good night’s sleep: Total darkness helps
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By T.L. Grace West
I have a drape over my bedside lamp to dim it while I read before bed. After...