Reading Time: 3 minutes Between work, family, friends and our homes we tend to find very little “Me” time. Often it seems the days will simply become one big blur as we progress activity to chore without once stopping to rest or enjoy life. The problem is that as humans we want to belong, we want to feel needed […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes To my readers, This blog is dedicated to the adult survivors of childhood abuse. The ones struggling every day to make sense of what they went through. The children who never had a voice, hurt by the ones who should have loved and protected them the most. Although no two stories will be the same, […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes “You could have grown cold, but you grew courageous instead. You could have given up, but you kept on going. You could have seen obstacles, but you called them adventures. You could have called them weeds, but instead you called them wildflower. You could have died a caterpillar, but you fought on to be a […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes How can we be more content with mistakes we made in the past? How can we stop our present from being affected by them? How can we have a flourishing and fulfilling future despite self-deprecating memories? I’m going to talk about five different ways, or perspectives, you can integrate into your daily life that will […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Nine years ago I was committed to a psychiatric hospital for the first time and diagnosed: Bipolar Type I. I was 29 years old, had led a highly successful life regardless of my impulses and lack of self-care. I had a large community of friends, in various groups of co-workers, social clubs and barflies. Until the […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes You aren’t going to want to hear this. You’re headstrong, stubborn, independent and determined. These are all qualities which will be useful later in life, but—you should hear me out. I write this because I know what happens next. I know what you were forced to do, how you suffered then and for so many […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes I am sure many people can relate to the symptoms and causes of depression and PTSD. I have been living with depression most of my life and have been in denial up until recent years. The PTSD has only just been recognized in the past year—back in the 70’s/80’s it wasn’t a common diagnosis among […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Prevention is better than curing, or so they say. If I could have prevented all the problems, issues, heartache, illnesses in my life, I would have had such an easy go of it. However, we cannot prevent everything undesirable, because these moments are created for growth, for expanding and recreating. So where does prevention begin […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I had to remind myself again that I am Amazing! That I am Strong! That I am Brave! That I am Wonderful! Many times, I feel that I still need to go so far, to reach this, do this, attain that to be more perfect, to be better, to become something. It is a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The truth is most people’s lives are based on the beliefs of a malnourished community. It starts out with the beliefs of our parents and families, then our friends and then our co-workers. We’re working with programming that doesn’t nourish us. How do I know this? Just look at the stats. We are the […]
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