I'm a child of the seventies and eighties, which means that we only had three choices for TV channels growing up. THREE! My kids still think I'm lying when I talk about it. Yes, kiddos, on Friday nights we literally had the choice of Dukes of Hazard or whatever the heck those other two channels… Continue reading Overcome Overwhelm … Cut Down the Choices
I'm a thinker or to be more accurate, an overthinker. I worry about the strangest things and struggle to let things go. It's a behavior I learned growing up from parents who each had their own issues and forms of anxiety. It's not a behavior that is easily unlearned and it makes practicing mindfulness much… Continue reading Start and End Your Day with Mindfulness
We all know people who think they're always the victim. Everything is about them. Everything bad that happens is targeted towards them. The world is just out to get them ... or is it? A sure sign of someone who is mentally healthy is their ability to handle adversity aka when shit goes wrong. Do… Continue reading The World is NOT Out to Get You
Mental health advocates and therapists talk all the time about the importance of mindfulness, but I've seen very few talk about how hard it is to actually do. Yes, I understand the importance of living in the moment. I know that guilt and regret are living in the past and anxiety is living in the… Continue reading Mindfulness … Practice with the Mundane
A few days ago I heard a story about GROWN people making fun of another GROWN person for her love of a certain type of cartoon .... and it broke my heart. This world would be a pretty boring place if we were all alike. Why can't we embrace our differences? Why can't we learn… Continue reading Never be sorry for being you
