Choosing Hope in the Face of Hopelessness
For years prior to this interruption I had felt as though I had a monster inside of me that I had to manage.
Category: Pastor Brad’s Blog
Fresh Hope for Mental Health
15 Cognitive Distortions
The topic of cognitive distortions is for everyone. Pastor Brad identifies 15 common cogitative distortions. These distortions are widespread. These distortions are not necessarily connected to mental illness or mental disorders, but certainly, these distortions can easily exasperate a mental illness or mental disorder.
Five Keys to Successfully Navigating Change in Spite of a Mental Health Challenge
As they say, “The only thing that never changes is change.” Life is full of changes. Some changes that we make, others make, or life makes for us. Some changes we like; others we do not. Change is unavoidable.
8 Things You Can Do When Someone You Love Has Bipolar Disorder by Rick Quall
Bipolar disease is difficult for caregivers, too. What can you do to help someone who has bipolar disease?
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.
Free Fresh Hope App
Fresh Hope is thrilled to announce that we have now have a Fresh Hope app for both Apple and Android mobile devices. The app allows you to have all of our online resources (blogs, videos, podcasts, newsletter, recovery principles, etc.) all at your finger tips in one place.
Fresh Hope for Mental Health
When “I” Becomes “We” Wellness Happens
From my perspective, finding at least one person that you trust can be key for successful recovery. Let’s be honest, a mental health issue, when not treated can distort your perception of reality and easily affect your behavior and choices. And when this happens we need someone to speak into our situation to help us make the necessary corrections in the course of our mental health recovery.
Life Is 10% What Happens to You and 90% How You React to It
Everybody has pain. Everybody has tragedies and losses in their lives. Pain is pain. Whether it is the loss of a child, cancer, financial collapse, divorce or a mental health challenge: you either work through it, or you get stuck in it. (By the way, if this blog post is “ticking you off”, then you are most likely stuck in your pain.) As they say, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Free Fresh Hope App
Fresh Hope is thrilled to announce that we have now have a Fresh Hope app for both Apple and Android mobile devices. The app allows you to have all of our online resources (blogs, videos, podcasts, newsletter, recovery principles, etc.) all at your finger tips in one place.
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