Category: Depression
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Anxiety, Fear and Insecurity, which is it?
Do you mistake Anxiety for Insecurity? These lines are becoming quite blurred. We now have a diagnosis and we can explain how we feel, but are we explaining it away? Are we using it as a reason to not try to not do things to keep ourselves in a bubble? I had the opportunity to…
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The Battle of Redemption.
Things were different this round of depression. I was equipped. My gloves were up, ready to battle, but all the routines and practices that had worked before weren’t working this time. As I sat there recounting my story, I was secretly begging for her to impart some words of wisdom that no one else had.…
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Five Simple Ways to practically help someone who is grieving.
Last year over eight million people suffered the loss of someone in their immediate family. (http://www.griefspeaks.com/id113.html) Let that sink in, their immediate family. That’s a lot of hurting people. How we can best people not just in their hour of need, but walk them through this next chapter.
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Grief will not be solved in five stages.
There is no formula for grief, and there is no predictability. We must understand that grief will never be fully understood.
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Why grieving matters: How our society embraces celebration but ignores grief.
In world that is moving in a rapid pace we need to slow down. We need to allow ourselves the time to grieve. Not only grieve a loss, but unmet expectations, disappointments, betrayals, etc.,
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Anxiety: a misplaced desire for heaven.
We walk around as victims of a schedule that we created. Did you get that? We created this schedule so we can control our anxiety around time and our scheduling. The good news is that we do have control, the bad news is it’s going to require some changes in our day to day life.
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Do you choose comfort over abundance?
Comfort never gets you anywhere, comforts keeps you exactly where you are at. Is that really what we want? Do we really want to stay exactly where we are at? I think all of us can say that the answer is no. Over the course of my life I have learned that out of the…
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When your story makes others uncomfortable.
. I’ve come to realize that I have experienced far more than the majority of the people my age. For a long time that made me uncomfortable and I found it hard to relate to my peers. Their problems either seemed completely trivial or annoyingly immature. Unfortunately, my response to my peers wasn’t always the…
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Food Isn’t the Problem. Our Heart Is.
fuel is not just about food, but guarding our mind and changing our mindset about what food is then fuel becomes not just about what we eat, but what we watch, what we read, what we listen to…how we feed our mind, body and soul.
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When life hits do you fight or flee?
I’ve realized one thing over these last several weeks that when life kicks me down, I can’t retreat, I can’t pretend that I don’t get knocked down too. That’s not authentic, if I expect so much of myself and of others in my day to day life, then the same expectation goes for my presence…