[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Mental Illness Hell”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Mental illness is still stigmatized in this country, along with taking the medications that often treat it. The main reason it is stigmatized is that most people just don’t understand it. If that’s you, I think I’ve come up with a way of explaining it that may finallyContinue reading “Here’s How Close You Are to Being Mentally Ill”
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The Attitude I Choose In These Times
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”choose the right path”]123rf.com[/featured-image] We are living in difficult times. It seems every day something happens to shock us, numb us, horrify us, or cause us to question what in the hell is happening to the world. Because of the media (both mainstream and social) we are discovering, to our horror,Continue reading “The Attitude I Choose In These Times”
Your Primal Fear
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”fear”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Want proof that most people live with a deep fear they are constantly trying to disguise? All you have to do is teach a college philosophy class and watch what happens as one person after another finds their most basic beliefs threatened. See how people sputter, how their ears andContinue reading “Your Primal Fear”
The One Thing You Need To Do To Succeed
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I’ll bet there’s something in your life you deeply want to do but you’re afraid you can’t. Or afraid you’ll fail. Or you don’t know where you’ll find the time. Or you’re afraid people will laugh at you. And they may. Or you’re afraid you’re just dreaming and being stupid. OrContinue reading “The One Thing You Need To Do To Succeed”
“The Sky Is Not Falling!”
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]image ©Disney Corporation, 2005[/featured-image] If the line that we see the world not as it is but as we are is true (and I’m convinced it is), there are a lot of dark, fearful, negative, cynical people in the world who look around them and see only despair, only things to fear,Continue reading ““The Sky Is Not Falling!””
Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] My post idea today comes from a reader, who emailed a heartbreaking note to me. She attached the quote at the top of this post, and wrote: I came across this quote not too long ago and it stopped me in my tracks. As a teenager I was sexually abused by [identity clipped] for [lengthContinue reading “Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering”
Is Fear of Criticism Keeping You From Pursuing Your Dreams?
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Do you sometimes feel like the main reason you don’t get busy pursuing some of your dreams is the fear of criticism? If so, I get it. I’m with you. Most of my life I had a passion for writing, but what kept me from really pursuing it was the fearContinue reading “Is Fear of Criticism Keeping You From Pursuing Your Dreams?”
Depression and anxiety are not spiritual issues
Depression is not sin. It is also not just “being sad.” In a March 5 post, Amy Viets of the blog Depression’s Collateral Damage, wrote: Depression is an illness so terrible and stark that no one would actively seek it as a means to grow in the spiritual life. And with such a burden to bear,Continue reading “Depression and anxiety are not spiritual issues”
Watch What You Eat (with your mind)
I came across this piece today on The Huffington Post, and I thought it was one of the best posts I had seen on how the mind works and the obvious fact that the untrained mind cannot be a peaceful mind. This comes from a Buddhist writer, but it applies equally to all people —Continue reading “Watch What You Eat (with your mind)”
Re-post: Bring It On!
One of my dearest friends was diagnosed with cancer a couple of weeks ago. He’s supposed to get information on how serious it is tomorrow. He is scared and in that dreadful waiting place. I don’t know what to tell him. I try to listen a lot. I did come across this article I wroteContinue reading “Re-post: Bring It On!”
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