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Take Control of Your HealthCare: Buying Your Own Insurance
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “ObamaCare,” put into place many provisions to help protect consumers and make health insurance more accessible. However, purchasing your own insurance from the national marketplace or your state marketplace can be intimidating and overwhelming, not … Continue reading
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Do You Have a Mental Health Problem?
This post is for all of you who don’t think you have a mental health problem. Probably. Most likely. I mean, you’re basically fine. You get by. It’s really no big deal. There are a lot of people who are … Continue reading
Take Control of Your HealthCare: Mental Health Parity
Why do you need to know about mental health parity? Because it is a law that was fully implemented in 2014 that directly affects just about everyone who has health insurance, but only 4% of Americans surveyed were aware of it. Read more … Continue reading
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How to Set Effective Goals
Reaching a meaningful goal is one of the best feelings in life. However, many people struggle to work toward and achieve their goals, leaving them feeling disappointed and defeated. In my last post, I listed Five Common Goal Setting Mistakes to … Continue reading
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Five Common Goal Setting Mistakes
The purpose of setting goals is to create success, whether small or large. When done effectively, goal setting is a beneficial tool that increases your motivation, gives you direction, moves you forward, and provides positive reinforcement. When goals are set ineffectively, they can decrease your motivation, … Continue reading
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Take Control of Your HealthCare: The Language
I have a confession. I never fully understood how health insurance works until I became a health care provider. As a consumer I often relied on my providers to tell me what was my responsibility to pay, or I just waited to receive … Continue reading
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About RunnerShrink
Welcome to RunnerShrink. The purpose of this blog is to share information from the applied science of psychology to a wider audience than I could possibly reach in my professional work. FYI, a discipline is referred to as an applied science when … Continue reading
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