Tag: change
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Gardening Benefits: A Path to Wellness and Depression Fighting
I have come to realize that there are many stages of healing, and for each stage there is a different tool that can help you along the way. The path is not one size fits all, and it is up to each person to figure out what works best for them. Every day I am…
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The Art of Rolling With The Punches
We never really know what we’re capable of until we’re in the situation. Sometimes it’s great to still be surprised with yourself, but if you’re someone living with high anxiety there is nothing worse than the unknown.
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A Mental Disorder Is Not An Identity
CPTSD is just something that is in my way, and every day I chip at it a little bit more because I will not let it control me and dictate the course of my life.
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How Far is Far Enough?
How far is far enough away to escape the past? I am further away now from the place of my birth than I have ever lived. I wish could say it was an entirely pleasant journey, but it was more of a flight.
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The Embers Of Hope
Have I indeed already lost hope? Perhaps it left in the middle of the night without my knowledge like a disheartened lover. It was once so bright; burning like an ember that illuminates the promise of a new fire.
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Self Help or Shameless Perfection? An opinion on the self-help journey.
Do not strive for perfection, but exist perfectly as yourself.
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Be A Butterfly
Rather than assembling the pieces of yourself back into the old mold, find a new mold that you like and focus on what is needed to make that mold a reality.
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Open the Curtains
Plenty of books and websites provide ideas on how to change bad habits, but what about changing your life instead? Who we are can generally be boiled down into a series of habits. We might see prominent habits in someone like indecisiveness, but the trait is made up of several smaller habits. Addictions are habits,…
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Snow Globe
Outside of my window the snow is blowing around as if in a snow globe; swirling and swirling, but it never seems to land. It seems as if time outside has stood still though the roads have been plowed and the garbage picked up. The world looks the same, yet entirely different. Inside my small…