Yesterday, I wrote about how I hate recovery. You can find that post by clicking here. In the post, I reflected on how recovery is not the best word for what we are trying to accomplish in getting healthy after our substance use, depression, anxiety or other mental illnesses. So I coined a new phrase: … More A New Definition of Recovery: “Uncovery”
I have decided to abandon recovery. Instead, I have embraced my Uncovery. ___ I’m leaving my recovery behind because it’s not working very well. In fact, it sucks. But before we go too far into that, take a moment to consider what we mean by the word recovery. We all know what recovery means, right? … More Do You Want to Know Why I Hate Recovery?
For article, “Do You Know How to Let Go of Hard Things Other People Say?” click on the photo. I write articles about wellness, leadership, parenting and personal growth. My hope is to deliver the best content I can to inspire, to inform and to entertain. Sign up for my blog if you want to … More Carrying Emotional Hurt Will Create Barriers to Your Recovery
Nine ways to heal your tendency to take words too literally ___ The only way that you will experience love is to risk NOT being loved. To love is to face the possibility of rejection, of scorn, of hurt, of misunderstanding. To be together you have to be willing to be alone. Relationships can be … More Do You Know How To Let Go of Hard Things That Other People Say?
For article on the Seven Words that Will Change How Your View Your Mental Health, click on the photo above. I write articles about wellness, leadership, parenting and personal growth. My hope is to deliver the best content I can to inspire, to inform and to entertain. Sign up for my blog if you want … More My Diagnosis is Not Who I Am
For article on the Seven Words that Will Change How Your View Your Mental Health, click on the photo above. I write articles about wellness, leadership, parenting and personal growth. My hope is to deliver the best content I can to inspire, to inform and to entertain. Sign up for my blog if you want … More Your Depression Does Not Define You
Mental illness can be defined with just seven words. Be careful, because the words you choose will speak for you. ___ “When you miss work because of surgery, you get flowers and casseroles. When you are depressed and can’t come to work, you are seen as lazy and weak and no one knows how to … More Seven Words That Will Change How You View Mental Health
For the article on Recovery: The Most Powerful Words That You Will Ever Hear, click on the photo above. I write articles about wellness, leadership, parenting and personal growth. My hope is to deliver the best content I can to inspire, to inform and to entertain. Sign up for my blog if you want to receive … More The Most Powerful, Healing Words You Will Ever Hear
Your words shape your destiny. So how healthy is your verbal diet? ___ Your words become your destiny. Your words become your future and your future shapes your destiny. So use them wisely. It is not simply a truism of positive thinking: How you talk is who you are (and who you will be). In … More Recovery and How You Are What You Speak
Depression can feel like hell. It is an internal prison with no key and a lock made of your own thoughts. It’s a prison that you carry your prison with you wherever you go. For most of last year, I was held down by a depression that twisted it’s way through my mind. My first … More My Journey Through Depression
Getting High on Recovery 