healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Stitching my Way To Happiness
I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia when I was twelve years old. In short, Schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that can cause a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion and behavior. It can cause a faulty perception of ones reality and may also inflicted visual and auditory hallucinations. This is my reality.
By Shianne Jackson5 years ago in Motivation
Yardsticks
A little look at my own personal experiences and my perspective now... 1. I've had all my belongings taken from me by a man I trusted. I came home from work to find him drunk in his underpants with a female cop not letting me back into his house (which I'd moved into with everything I owned) I had to push past her to get my dog! Very disappointing that a woman of the law couldn't see just how ridiculous he was being and choosing to punish me. It now goes without saying...I don't respect police at all....they are a problem themselves. He had a drinking problem and his diabetes helped him drink a carton a day...easily!
By Samantha Curtis5 years ago in Motivation
Fearlessly Brilliant
The day was like all the others. Blurring together from lack of sleep, endlessly trying to fulfill all the responsibilities that I had agreed to and feeling like a failure in every department. Have you ever been there? Circling the drain of endless "tasks" and when you glance in the mirror all you see is a dimmed version of the you that you once thought was possible. Upon starting the journey, you're a wide eyed dreamer full of ideas and stars in your head. Yet, as the days wear on and seem to pound you like relentless waves on a stormy beach you begin to lose sight of the stars and all you feel is the water filling your lungs.
By Addison Culp5 years ago in Motivation
Creativity As Joy
I spent the better part of a decade working in different aspects of advertising, and in each of those jobs, the positions themselves were not considered creative. So much so that at the last one, it took years and some quite loud vocalization to be invited to brainstorm meetings in my own department, and the few ideas I was able to get into the hands of the She-Devil-In-Charge would be regularly shat upon out-of-hand. I would even be told on a very regular basis I was not just "not a creative," but, "Laura, YOU're not creative."
By Laura Talbot5 years ago in Motivation
Gratitude
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The result of cultivating the act of gratitude into our lives cannot be overemphasized. It makes sense of our past experiences and bring calmness to our present circumstances which in turn opens bright opportunities for the future because each time we feel grateful, our bodies respond by influencing positivity into our thoughts. Unfortunately our environment sometimes makes it difficult to achieve this sense of consistent gratitude.
By Yekinah Alimi5 years ago in Motivation
Creativity, The Dance of Life
I made a bold decision, and the excitement was overwhelming! You know the up all night thinking, creativity bouncing off every wall in your head! The ebb and flow of happiness, anticipation, stirred with a little fear. My new project could not begin fast enough.
By Donna Reimus5 years ago in Motivation
Choose To Be Strong
Death reached into my world, took me by the hand, and tried to pull me into his embrace, but I resisted. I pulled back and refused to follow, refused to be his bitch. When Death let go, he hollowed me out, taking everything I knew with him.
By Karen Eastland 5 years ago in Motivation
Unsteady Rhythms
I imagine that as Mercury’s retrograde has edged closer and closer, you’ve felt trade winds at your back like a sail unravelled. The steady metronome of quick wit and cunning guile that guides you so gracefully through life’s ups and downs has been shaken. Don’t fret; you’ve forgotten the chaos of last year, the year before and the year before. “April is the cruellest month,” but May has the most uncertainty; it’s full of nasty surprises if you’re not conscious of the winds changing.
By C Hillier5 years ago in Motivation
The Great Masquerader
When someone says, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” my initial reaction is to laugh, cry and have an overwhelming desire to throat punch the speaker. My children hallucinated, had bloody noses, unknown neurological issues, exhaustion, headaches, digestion issues and speech regression. My husband had uncharacteristic flares of fatigue, anger and ended up have surgery on both wrists. I was told I needed to have a partial hysterectomy, was taken by ambulance three times for my throat closing (not what you want your children to witness), struggled to form words, had extreme migraines, was angry and fatigued all the time…but yah this is supposed to make us stronger – or kill us.
By Elizabeth Cripe5 years ago in Motivation
Natural Magic
You are the key to your own natural magic. You have the ability, we all do to look within ourselves, to see what drives us. What conditioning from family and social, cultural, community has been placed on us. Look at how you react to certain things, situations, triggers you have and really become curious because when you become curious you are willing to see with different eyes, different viewpoints and ultimately a different perspective.
By Donna Morgan 5 years ago in Motivation
