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Happy Halloween! Did you know that that the scariest day of the year can come with some health perks? Psychotherapists Juli Fraga and Hilary Jacobs Hendel write about how best to use fear to your advantage. |
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QUICK CHAT |
A tooth for Halloween |
I've heard some creative Halloween costume ideas over the years, but this one might be the strangest. When I asked dentist Liel Grinbaum about unusual things patients have done with extracted teeth, he immediately remembered a father who found a rather unexpected use for his child's lost tooth. —Angela Haupt |
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. |
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What's the strangest thing you've ever heard of someone doing with a lost tooth? |
I had a child who was about 6 or 7 years old, and we had to remove one of their front teeth. The child really wanted to keep it, so we packaged it up, wrote the tooth fairy letter, and sent it home in a box. |
And then what happened? |
About a month later, I got an email. It was around Halloween, and the dad had dressed up as a prisoner. He'd taken his child's tooth and glued it to his cheek, right under his eye, so it looked like a teardrop tattoo. |
He actually wore his child's tooth on his face? |
Yes! He went around on Halloween like that, and apparently it got a lot of attention. It's by far the craziest thing I've encountered. |
Has anyone managed to top that costume? |
Not yet. To this day, I'm still trying to find a way to outdo him. |
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A place to park bedtime thoughts |
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Leah Ann Bolen |
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Leah Ann Bolen keeps a pen beside her bed with one unusual feature: a tiny light at the ballpoint tip. If an idea or reminder surfaces in the middle of the night, she can jot it down without switching on a lamp. “Dumping it onto the page is just a way to be like, ‘OK, I can let go,’” says Bolen, a Tucson-based sleep coach. After struggling with insomnia early in her corporate career, she found that writing down worries and tomorrow’s tasks helped quiet her busy mind. She calls it “clearing the queue.” |
Her nightstand also holds a silk sleep mask and a lavender-oil roller she reaches for when she needs help settling down—including after her older Labradoodle’s overnight bathroom trips. To associate the scent with calm, she initially carried it in her purse and used it after meditating or spending peaceful moments in nature. |
Two things she keeps out of the bedroom: her phone and a clock. Checking the time used to send her mind racing. Now, she wants the room to feel “free of input, free of media.” —A.H. |
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SATURDAY READ |
Halloween is a chance to rethink your relationship with fear |
By Juli Fraga and Hilary Jacobs Hendel |
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Whether you’re watching a scary movie or tiptoeing through a haunted house, Halloween can stir up spooky feelings. A gory scene may force you to cover your eyes or jump out of your seat. What drives these reactions is fear, a powerful core emotion. |
Being afraid can feel like getting stuck in your own horror show—your heart pounds, your pupils dilate, and you may gasp or scream. These reactions are not under conscious control; they’re rooted in biology. Like all emotions, fear plays an important role. It helps you survive and bolt for safety. |
Halloween gives you a chance to experiment with fear. It’s a time when the fright is real, but the threat is not. |
As psychotherapists who specialize in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), we know that being able to name and work with fear is good for health. Acknowledging your emotions makes you less likely to suppress or avoid them, drink too much, or become numb to what you’re feeling. |
Read the full story here. |
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