Category: Coping Skills
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How I Managed The Pain of Abuse – Continued
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.”Louise Hay What I am about to write, and what you are about to read, may not be your cup of tea. It…
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Mental Time Out!
You shouldn’t feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol’ bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC. Sean CoveyRead more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/taking-time-quotes I was mi.a.(missing in action) on purpose. I just needed to shut down, turn off, from all the heaviness happening around the…
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Connections
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”― Herman Melville Throughout my life I have watched people, what I have noticed that those who are connected through family, friends,…
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Challenges On The Road To Change
On this road to change are so many challenges, some feel like mountains, others like a raging stream. So large that I could just throw my hands up and give up. I know that mountains are not moved all at once, they are moved one stone, one rock, one pail of dirt, at a time.
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It Takes Guts!
This morning I really didn’t want to leave the cozy warm comfortable bed. If you can believe it we had snow yesterday and it continues, yuck. The end of September and snowing. Of course in Saskatchewan, Canada if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes and it will change. I had to get up…
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Itchy Feet
*** Before you close this post, it is not about athlete’s foot.*** In the summer of 1997 my best friend came and knocked on my apartment door. It was not the best place, but it was all that I could afford at the time. He began to tell me that there was a mobile home…
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Life Through The Eyes Of Shakespeare
I probably could guess what my high school english teachers would say about my grasp on the writings of the one and only William Shakespeare, poor would be the answer.
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Comfortable?
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are. Ellen DeGeneres When I entered high school I was a fish out of water. I stood 6’1″ and weighed only ninety-nine pounds. I was teased endlessly for being so skinny. I felt initimidated by other guys my…
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Old Habits
Have you ever had a pair of jeans that you just hate to put in the trash bin. I mean you have them broke in, comfortable, soft, and yes, almost down to nothing but white thread.
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Building A Village
A saying from Africa: “It takes a village to raise a child.” Before it was easy to migrate to areas from your home town most would marry someone from close by. I did not. My first wife was from Saskatchewan and I was raised around the city of Windsor, Ontario. I moved to the province…
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Control
Before I was in treatment, before the medications, I would find myself angry because things always seemed to be going against me. Things that there was just no way for me to control.
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Echoes In My Mind
I have mentioned before that my mind races, seldom shuts down, when it does it is medication that causes it to. Sometimes my problem stems from too much down time, nightime is extremely bad. It is when echoes from the past seem to bounce around in my brain. I seem to remember events that even…
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The Other Side Of Healthy
It was early part of the nineties where I found myself out of work living in a bachelor apartment where I just was totally burned out.
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Procrastination My Constant Companion
There is one thing I do best when I am depressed, procratinate. It’s not that I am lazy, it’s just that I have no energy. My energy is devoted to my depression.
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Broken, But Usable
Today we live in a disposable world. If something breaks we throw it in the trash, do not repair because buying new is cheaper
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Unplugged!
It has been a couple of days since I sat down and wrote anything. I just needed to replenish my inner being. For the longest time now I have practised not watching news channels on the weekend…
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Same Dull Routine
My life is pretty vanilla in that I don’t have much excitement each day. My day to day life is predictable.
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Why I Write
I started this blog as an attempt to express emotions that I was dealing with. It started to lean towards sharing my findings of Bible studies. It has been cathartic for me. Writing however, does not come easy for me. I have been learning over time from writing posts/articles on this blog. Learning has been an…
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