Life can be difficult and it can wear us down. Recovering a sense of humor may be just the change we need. ___ Aches and pains greet me in the morning. Obsessive thoughts follow me throughout the day. My bathroom scale goes up and my bank account goes down. Life is serious and it can be hard to … More The 12 Steps of Taking Ourselves a Little Less Seriously
Depression isn’t just gloomy and um, ‘depressing’. It can be a little fun! ___ I am facing a season of depression right now. Depression can get you really down and honestly some days are really rough. Mental Health is not something to laugh at, but laughing can improve your mental health. Today, I am defying my … More 11 Ways to Defy Your Depression with Humor
Shampoo: We use if for our hair, for our pets, for our cars and for our carpets. Most of us love it but there is a growing movement of shampoo haters. The movement has some new found social power, courtesy of The Minions. ___ Everyone I know loves to shampoo. Nothing feels better than the … More Minions and the No Poo Challenge
Addiction is inventing chaos when we are insecure, uncertain or afraid. It is a defense mechanism that helps us avoid. We invent chaos when we over eat, over buy, over pack, over stock our homes, get over busy, over debt ourselves, over do things, or over think. Recovering health is not easy, but it is … More Addiction: A simple path
What do you want to be when you grow up? Yesterday I was asked by my daughter whether I dreamed about becoming a Psychologist when I was her age? I told her that when I was her age, I dreamed of becoming an inventor, creating new things out of throwaway boxes and junk. So far, … More My life as a Chooseologist
This is the second in a series of articles on Positive Psychology. I have written a longer, more referenced article on the subject which you can find here. To get the content hot off the press, sign up at the email link on the right column of this page or at my Facebook page. You can also search … More Positive Psychology: Listening for the Rest of the Story
A life well lived is the best recovery program.
Sometimes life sucks, bad. There are different kinds of suckiness that I have discovered personally: There are the weekly suck days: Mondays… getting back to traffic, making lunches, getting kids up and tackling email inboxes and a pot of coffee. Seasonal suckiness: January in Canada is not the funnest place to be. Snowstorms, -35 degrees … More Life can suck sometimes
Getting High on Recovery 