Change can be scary. It’s hard to navigate your mood through waters that rise and fall and threaten to break your boat in two. But there is something you can do to weather the storm out: positive self-talk.
Did you ever have a terrible headache and then found it went away after a few ibuprofen and some “still time?” Well, when your mental health improves after making it a priority it is kind of like that only instead of the pain subsiding, you become empowered and solutions run through your mind instead of sadness, melancholy, and fatigue.
When the arrows of life’s hardships are flying past you and you can hardly gather your thoughts, invite order and stillness into your life.
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A therapist in Canada, Isabella Mori, who is also a bloggy friend of mine, published my guest post last year on cognitive therapy on her blog. While I am not a therapist, I read about the theories and have benefited from therapy a few times throughout my life so far. I recommend therapy.
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This is a “magazine” of sorts that features blog posts from across the blogosphere on a given topic. Since starting the carnival, I’ve never had an empty month! People have rallied behind this concept and shared amazing vision from all over. Some of the best ones, in my opinion, seemed to come from the “funny farms” of the world. Conventional thought has some value but thinking outside the box changes the world.
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Welcome to the February 4, 2009 edition of amazing vision.
I was amazed once again here just before Valentine’s Day at the inpouring of quality writers submitting their “amazing vision” to my blog carnival. Get yourself a good coffee and check out these posts. There is some life-changing stuff here. If you have a post for the next [...]
In this, my second podcast, I got a great tip from my friend Jessica S. (I have to distinguish with an S. because my sister in law is also named Jessica and is also a blogger who reads Postcards) to go back through my thousands of archived posts and talk about one of those ideas. [...]
Welcome to the January 8, 2009 edition of amazing vision.
Photo of me with Ben Franklin, a truly amazing visionary.
Quick intro: What a way to start the new year. These blog carnival posts made the cut because they encourage, inspire, and motivate. If these posts inspire you to write something for the next carnival, please use [...]
Depressed people are ridiculed by friends and family often because they can’t just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.” This tends to even be a sort of professional view nowadays of psychiatry and psychotherapy in general.
Alicia Sparks, the author of Celebrity Psychings, seems to have a true vision to erase the stigma of mental illness. And that is something I am definitely on board with.
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