Tips for holiday mental health.
How to experience less stress this holiday. It’s no secret that it’s easy to simultaneously enjoy and dread the holiday season. Many people look forward to each new winter …
Mindfulness, Serenity, and Recovery
When the purpose of recovery isn’t to be just replacing one unhealthy coping mechanism with another. It becomes necessary to understand and have a high awareness of where our feelings of anger, sadness, loneliness, happiness, etc. come from and then be able to allow ourselves to feel without the need to “make” the “bad” feelings go away.
3 Tips: Forgiveness and Setting Boundaries
Before you read watch: “What Bob learned about forgiveness at Gulf Breeze Recovery” Three practical tips on how to reconcile Forgiveness with setting Boundaries Our world seems to be full …
My Path to Inner Peace after Growing up with an Addicted Parent
An adult child of an addicted parent shares her story and her path to Inner Peace. Many people go through their days waiting, hoping, and feeling frustrated that they aren’t …
Forgiveness. Haven’t We Suffered Enough?
Memories of past wrongs can create pain, even years after the painful event has passed. So if we are still suffering, then why would we even consider forgiving the person who caused the pain?
Why Overthinking Things Is Wasting Your Time and 5 Ways to Stop
Overthinking? How many of you laughed because this meme describes you? We don’t often think about having an addiction to our thinking, but the truth is that overthinking is one of …
Is there a lesson in the Frustrating Flight Delays?
Can you handle the Frustrations of Inevitable Flight Delays? A few years ago on an unseasonably cold mid-winters day, my daughter and I were preparing to fly from Tampa, …
Is life Really Annoying?
Why Life Isn’t As Annoying As You Think It Is For the first time since my 7-year-old daughter was born, we went on a weekend trip with just our …
6-Ways Selfishness is Healthy
Selfishness usually gets a bad rap but here are six ways it could be a healthy thing! In a world that sometimes seems ready to spin off its axis, …
5 Ways to Improve your Memory and Give Your Brain A Break
Here’s an example of how the brain works. Have you ever been puzzling over a problem for what seems like an eternity, only to have the solution hit you in the face like a ton of bricks when you least expect it?