Life Is 10% What Happens to You and 90% How You React to It
This past year my wife and I went to my 40th high school class reunion. I had not seen many of my classmates since graduation. So,
Month: July 2018
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Real Hope Has Gotten Me Through My Hopelessness
Probably one of the most peculiar things about hope and hopelessness is that they can co-exist in life. When I reflect on the greatest difficulties and deepest depression that caused extreme despair in my life, it was hope that got me through the hopelessness. But it was not the “wishful-thinking” kind of hope that life would get better that got me through the hopelessness. That kind of “hope” is nothing more than wishful thinking that things may or may not get better. And that kind of hope was not enough for me. Hoping that things might get better could not even bring about the smallest of cracks within my despair.
30 Things You Can Do When Someone You Love is Clinically Depressed
When you love someone that is experiencing deep depression it can be exhausting and frustrating. You want to encourage your loved one but don’t want to push them too much. Encouraging them to “push through” but knowing when not to do so is a delicate balance. You might even find yourself feeling the depression emotionally. No doubt caring for someone who is in the depths of depression can feel as though life is being sucked out of you. You can end up having no idea as to how to help or encourage your loved one.
Think About What You Think About
By Sandy Turney Think about what you think about. Weird suggestion, huh? But….have you ever done it? Have you ever paid attention to what goes
Working Through Your Past is a Key to Wellness
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Ten Truths About Recovery
Recently I met Steve Moffitt via a phone appointment. While we were talking he was telling me about these ten recovery truths he had written. I asked him to read them to me and after he read a few of them I asked him to send them to me. I asked his permission to share them with you, our blog readers. I’d love to know what you think of them. Take a look and then post a comment- do these ring true to you regarding your own recovery as a Christian?
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Changing Our Self-Talk To Faith-Talk
The other day I was pitching a baseball to grandsons. If you know me, you realize I am balding…all except for a little patch right
Bipolar & Creating Mini Habits For Positive Change
It only makes sense that our brains have default settings. Those are the settings that our brains default to when we are stressed or things we can do with little to no thought. For example, my default setting for when to eat is when I’m sad, happy, tired, stressed, or when I’m awake! This eating default setting has been a well-worn patterned default in my brain for many years. Unfortunately, unlike being able to go into your computer default settings, make a change and click “save,” we cannot do that with our brains. Instead, if we want to make changes to our default settings, we must make them bit by bit, by starting a mini habit that we can do without one ounce of motivation on our part; a simple thing that can be done by sheer self-willpower.
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10 Lies the Church Believes about Mental Illness
It’s been 13 years since my first hospitalization and five since the last. Both times, part of what sent me into the tailspin of mental illness were misunderstandings and false information. In our journey with this illness, my family has been misled by lies we were told, or truths withheld. These lies continue to mislead the church and keep people from properly viewing mental illness as what it is.
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