Mental Health Related Articles & Blog Posts
Self-Care and Clutter Clearing Go Together: Ten Ways to Lighten Up by Feeling Good
“I live by the truth that ‘No’ is a complete sentence. I rest as a spiritual act.”–Anne Lamott, O Magazine Most of us think of caring for ourselves as an extra-curricular activity. Something we squeeze into our lives at the end of the day. Or when everyone else in the family is taken care of. [...]
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Your Biggest Weakness can Become your Greatest Strength
I have incredible confidence, but for the most part it’s incredibly quiet confidence, borne of a life spent in pain and taking every day and every accomplishment as a personal, private victory.
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Being Different is Good
If you can’t hide it, embrace it. From fairly early on after being diagnosed with Arthritis, my joints started to change. I used to get embarrassed at people looking at my hands – they look like an 80-year-old woman’s hands. A newspaper reporter once wrote in what was actually a lovely article written about me, [...]
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Good Help is Not Hard to Find – You Just Have to Ask
I’m short, so I have to ask for help at the grocery store when the item I want is on the top shelf. Is there any reason to feel embarrassed or silly about having to ask for assistance in reaching something? Not at all. So why should I feel embarrassed when asking for help with [...]
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Everyone’s Pain is His or Her Own
Pain is an interesting phenomenon to me. Isn’t it a fascinating self-protection measure that we cannot truly recall extreme pain once it has abated? From the raw pain of recovery from a surgery to cut a bone out of my wrist to natural childbirth, once the event has passed I will only know that it [...]
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Lessons Learned from Living with Chronic Pain – Tough Luck
I hurt. A lot. Every day. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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365 Grains of Sand
As I fell asleep last night my hand opened to reveal 365 worn grains of sand – each like an empty package, with ribbon and bows strewn about… each grain of sand, like a day in the past year, tiny in comparison to the full scheme of things.
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Do You Ever Just Wonder?
I am but one person in a vast expanse of many. My voice is quiet and many times gets lost when given among many. There are times when I wonder when this voice is quiet, once and for all, if it will be remembered, missed.
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The Innocence of Discovery
There is something beautiful in witnessing the Innocence of discovery! This little snuggle bunny has captivated this grandma’s heart in a way that is so pure and intense. Surrounded by toys, sitting in the middle of the living room floor, playing happily when he stops… Something has caught his eye.
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Some dreams are meant to be
Yesterday on my walkabout, (yes I am still doing the loop) I was trying to notice things that normally my eyes would pass over. I came across some very colorful leaves, some flowers, birds, but the one thing that caught my attention and took my breath away was when I rounded the corner to the [...]
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