6 Ways to Bring Your Body With You in Your Recovery ___ Recovery begins when you reach a point of decision. For some of us, it is when we are at the end of ourselves when our health demands it, or when we realize we are heading down a path of certain destruction. Recovery begins when … More How to Recover Your Mind and Your Body
Some of the Least Helpful Mental Health Advice You Could Ever Say to Living with Mental Illness. ___ The video below is very funny and it contains a lot of truth. Sometimes we learn more from humor than anything else. Here is some of the least helpful mental health advice you could ever say… Just stop it. … More Recovery: Truth in Humor
Learning to use your imagination for your recovery may be the key to change. ___ What is it? You know, that thing that you want to be rid of? For some of us, it may be a relationship. For others, it may be an addiction or a really strong habit. And for others, it may be … More Recovery: Discover What Pulls You Forward
Coping with each stage of parenting is easy if you keep things simple ___ Parenting is like recovery. One decision will change the course of your life. Some things you will have control over, but many things will demand acceptance, forgiveness, and good coping skills. The really fun thing about parenting is that when you … More The 7 Stages of Parenting
Teenage dis/ease is a common disorder and treatment is rather behind the times. ___ There is a new dis/ease going around my home… And it’s been 16 years in the making. My teenager is now 16 years old. For girls, there is the Sweet 16 but what the heck do we do for the boys? … More A 16 Year Old Dis/Ease
Or maybe should the title be, “When you think yourself out of everything”? ___ Do you overthinking things? Just a little? I thought so. This post is a helpful guide to understanding how much you overthink things. I get it, you are just reading this for a friend. ◊♦◊ The 8 Signs that You Overthink Everything: … More 8 Signs that You Overthink Everything
Your attitude will change your well-being ___ What has you trapped? You probably are not trapped in a prison with bars and locks, but you are in a prison. It may be your body, your health, your debt, or more correctly it may be your mind. You probably are not trapped in a prison with bars … More Sean Stephenson asks: “How Are You In a Prison?”
How do you express your depression? ___ Depression can look differently with different people. Each individual will express their depression based on their gender, personality, culture and individual factors. There is not a male or female form of depression, but each gender will have some unique characteristics. It is important with any list to realize that … More Seven Surprising Ways that Men Show Our Depression
You can own a lot of things, but you can’t buy more time. ___ Time is precious, too precious to waste by being in a hurry. You can accomplish a lot more if you slow down. Time is precious, too precious to waste by being in a hurry. You can accomplish a lot more if … More You Have Today
You may have control issues, I know that I certainly don’t. ___ Okay, just a bit. I love to hold the bag of chips so that I get more than the rest of the family. Am I selfish? I don’t think so, I just like to be the Holder of the Bag. It’s fun to … More Do You Have Control Issues?
Getting High on Recovery 