Mental Health Champions: “Stay in the present moment as much as possible” with Dr. Beatrice Tauber

I stay in the present moment as much as possible. Psychologists say that if you find yourself dwelling in the past you will slide toward depression. Likewise, if you worry about the future you will struggle with anxiety.

As a part of my series about “Mental Health Champions” helping to normalize the focus on mental wellness, I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Beatrice Tauber. Dr. Tauber who a clinical psychologist with specialties in child development and neuropsychology. In addition to being the founder of Harborside Wellbeing (www.HarborsideWB.com) in North Carolina, she has been published in national and international publications and has been lecturing on mental health since she entered the field. Although she has worked with many people over the last 25 years of her career, she felt she needed to do more to de-stigmatize mental illness. She began the initiative of writing children’s books to change the narrative on mental health one condition at a time. Dr. Prior partnered with Mary Ann Drummond to write Grandma and Me: A Kid’s Guide for Alzheimer’s & Dementia to educate, de-stigmatize and provide tools to stay connected despite…