Category: Mental Health
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Creativity and Mental Health: How to Accept and Embrace Your Creative Mind
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Having a Creative Personality vs Being A Creative Person When you have a creative nature, you’re different from a creative-minded person, someone who seeks creative pursuits, and even different from someone who has a highly creative brain. Some people may seek ways to incorporate creative thinking into their lives or become more artistic, but when…
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Parenting With Mental Illness When Kids Are Sick With The Flu
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Mental illness rears its ugly head and swells larger with every hour of sleep I miss out on like a growing toy expanding in a bowl of water… Every parent struggles when their kids (and themselves) are sick. We know whatever one child is experiencing will soon spread like wildfire through siblings and eventually find…
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Failure Is A Key To Success
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Success is how well you’ve done with the potential within yourself. The potential for love, for honesty, for self-awareness, for growth, for forgiveness. Success is how well you’ve polished your soul and only failure and heartache can make you aware that it even needs cleaned.
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Hope in Mental Health Recovery
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Real hope for recovery from mental illness depends on realistic expectations and flexibility.
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10 Lessons of Advice For My Younger Self and Teens
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A Healthy Self-Esteem is the Foundation For Good Mental Health All the previous pieces of advice are predicated on having a healthy self-esteem–proud but humble. If we don’t have confidence in who we are we can’t…
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Stopping the OCD and Anxiety Spirals of Negative Thoughts
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“A fourth thought arrived. Then many more”–so begins the hell of the spiral down to a panic attack or at least misery. This quote is a perfect description of how the spiral of anxiety starts and morphs into full blown panic from a single thought. Oh, if only you could avoid the first worried thought…
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Why Do Adults Lose Their Imaginations?
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A post and a poem that examines using your imagination as an adult and attempts to answer the question: Do adults lose their imaginations?
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How Do You Find Out Your Purpose in Life?
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Culture’s motto of “do what makes you happy” is a terrible life philosophy if it comes at the expense of others Culture is a terrible advisor because it is fed by the monsters of the ego we are trying to flee from. Happiness is fleeting and fickle like a weather forecast that changes by the…
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Your Morning Forecast – Starting Your Day Out Right
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Your morning will also always let you know in advance what kind of mental weather you’ll have for the day.
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A Guided Meditation for Panic and Anxiety Disorders with Hypochondria
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Meditation is often touted as a great solution for alleviating anxiety and stress. And it can be, but for those of us who have anxiety disorders, meditation and stillness runs counter-intuitive to our body’s natural desire to run and distract ourselves whenever we’re alone with our thoughts. I wanted to share something that has really…
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Eclipse – A Poem
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Eclipse – A Poem Two sides of a conflicting coin Flip like faces in a dramatic act. Two intricate and separate forces entangle In a bitter struggle, leaving Earth cloaked in black. How can such a powerful light Be smothered by such a small, sinister hand? A visceral visual of what evil can accomplish When given…
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I Am Not A Victim – The Courage to Change
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The hardest thing about fighting back against any mental illness, addiction, mental limitations, or physical limitations is that there is not a direct enemy that you can see, that you rebel and fight against. I read “Unbroken” by Lauren Hillenbrand a few weeks ago and was inspired by the story. But it wasn’t the time Louis…
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Dealing With Winter – Learning From Nature
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The temperatures are already putting me in a bad mood, and even though we’ve only had one snowfall, I’d say I’ve had about enough for the year. It is way too early to be already having blistering temperatures in the middle of November in Indiana. I do have a tendency to suffer from SAD (Seasonal…
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Finding Meaning During Hard Times
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The worst thing about mental illness is not that it cages your life, but that it cages your soul. You feel trapped, doomed to live life as a person that doesn’t feel or resemble the real “you”. More than anything else though, I think it makes it nearly impossible to find hope in your life.…
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Wandering in the Desert
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I struggle with anxiety everyday of my life. Agoraphobia and panic jail me and keep me as their prisoner many days. It is no surprise that these days leave me frustrated to the core and questioning how I’ll ever live a relatively “normal” life. I shouldn’t be like this…What’s wrong with me? Is this all I…
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Reflecting On The Journey
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With all positive change comes great adversity. All too often, adversity stops us short of ever seeing the positive change that only happens by pushing through difficult times. Even when positive changes are transforming our lives, we are so focused on the discomfort that we are unable to see them. We reluctantly look forward, overwhelmed…
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Stillness – The Mind’s Medication For Stress
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No matter where we look, technology is everywhere in our culture. Not only is it everywhere, but it’s getting more and more advanced every day. That smartphone you just bought is practically out of date within a few months. There’s no doubt that technology is a great thing and offers us many opportunities that otherwise…
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Anxiety and Letting Go of Control
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I have struggled long and hard. I have wrestled with anxiety through the depths of solitude and fought back harder than I ever thought possible. But it hasn’t saved me. In fact, it’s only made my fears worse and conditioned the fact that I am bound to my condition. There are many deep questions about…
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