5 ways to reduce stress in 2019
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
January 14, 2019
Filed under Health + Wellness
With a constant stream of New Year’s resolutions flooding Instagram and Twitter feeds, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of expectations. The school year is halfway over, and your teachers are piling on new material, tests, projects and anything else they can think of. It may seem ...
Top five health + wellness stories of 2018
December 26, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
Our goal in reviving health + wellness was to bring light to many of the issues facing teenagers today. And bringing this section back to TKC has been a really amazing experience. We have been able to cover important topics regarding KHS students’ health, either mental or physical. From menstruation t...
Brainstorm: Living with epilepsy
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
December 12, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
Some high school freshmen stress over who they are going to eat lunch with. Others stress about their physics grade, worried their low B will drop. Others worry about which shirt they should wear on any given day. But for Cameron Schulze, freshman, his worries are vastly different. “I just have th...
Menstruation as a transgender male
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
October 19, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
One of the issues the transgender community in our country, and in our school especially, faces if dealing with menstruation as a transgender male. The main way to alleviate some of the stigma around it is education, but in the meantime, providing trash cans in the stalls of men’s bathrooms is a simple...
On the line
Logan Crews, editor-in-chief
September 28, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
A man stood on the side of the road, watching cars and busses and trucks go by. He thought of his kids. And he thought of the custody problems. He thought of his life. And he thought of running through traffic to end it. Standing on the side of the road, he picked up his phone. Melanie Ro...
The Kirkwood wellness dilemma
Grace Klebe, news editor
September 27, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness, Showcase
Fifty one percent (180/348) of KHS students think KSD needs a new plan to deal with the mental health of its students and staff. With no current district-wide plan in place, the school board submitted a Request for Proposals (RFP) in March 2018 asking for help from different organizations to form a ...
Depression Q&A
Annie O'Brien, health + wellness editor
September 24, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
“Siri, what does depression feel like?” “I’m not sure I understand your question. Would you like me to search the web for ‘what does depression feel like?’” The internet is great for lots of things, but when it comes to mental illness it can be more helpful to ask people who deal wit...
September awareness days and weeks
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
August 31, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
Every month is full of different awareness days and weeks. Take a look at the calendar to find some dates and opportunities to learn more about each day and week of September. ...
Back to snacks
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
August 21, 2018
Filed under Health + Wellness
I get it. You're always hungry. You don't eat breakfast and then you forget your lunch and get stuck eating cafeteria food. By the time you get home from school you're exhausted and starving. You could munch on some candy bars or load up on potato chips but you know you're still going to be hungry five m...
Anonymous account of an eating disorder
March 2, 2018
Filed under Columns, Health + Wellness, Showcase
Since early 2017, many things in my life have started fading away: my closest friend, my hobbies, my motivation. With school ramping up and nothing good coming out of it, I hit a real rough patch and started to let all these things fall by the wayside in an attempt to be a person I thought would app...
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