Excerpt from “You Have to Be His Brother to Understand”
To my readers familiar with mental health issues and study, I am asking you to read a powerful poem by the brother of a mentally ill teen and stumble it. It’s very well written and really touches a soft spot if you are or if you have a loved one who is mentally ill. Some [...]
Positive Self-Talk in Uncertain Times
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.
Put Your Mental Health First
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.
Invite Order and Stillness into Your Life
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.
Cognitive Therapy and the 10 Distortions
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.
Sometimes [...]Amazing Vision Blog Carnival
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.
amazing vision – February 4, 2009
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 [...]Quote Talk
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. [...]
Amazing Vision – January 8, 2009
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 [...]How to Make Acronyms for Personal Development
This post is about how I come up with acronyms for self-improvement. The process of making them is difficult, but recalling them after that is easy. At New Year’s cusp, people are thinking about resolutions …
