healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Recent Amputee/Current Program Director
It takes me a while to commit to writing about my journey. If I'm being honest, with the way I feel, it's been exceedingly difficult to get back to writing at all. Could be the work I've committed myself to or maybe even the illness that led to my amputation in the first place. Word to the wise, watch your blood sugar people.
By Dwayne O Connor3 years ago in Motivation
A Riders Life
Eleanor gasped as she woke up. Her mind struggling to gather awareness. Her eyes closed, and too scared to open them, she can already sense she is somewhere unfamiliar. She feels around the floor, as she lays paralyzed. She takes a sharp inhale of breath, “ouch!” Eleanor cuts her hand on a piece of glass. She feels some liquid creeping toward her pants. She tries to open her eyes, but everything is fuzzy. Her head pounding, she manages to sit up.
By Madison Bauer3 years ago in Motivation
Is Remembering a Sign?
Nine children bred from my grandmother, I lost my entire family to cancer and serious health-related issues. All but two— my mother and my Aunt Susie. I guess I should be more thankful. It seems God tried to fill up the holes he created, with new bodies he’d put in their place, mentors, leaders, and family friends. Still. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have them all here again, at the same time.
By Alexis Creamer3 years ago in Motivation
How Showers Helped My Depression
Showering! It should be a normal every day or every other day activity, right? Not for some of us. Some of us fight the showers. Some of us can go days and even weeks not showering-on purpose. It sounds strange and a bit childish but some of us can’t help this. For one reason or another some of us will forbid showering to ourselves. We fully believe that showering now is not an option. I’m sure many of us have either felt this way or known someone that has gone through this questionable act.
By Lily3 years ago in Motivation
No one is you
Today's society is constantly bombarded with messages about how we should look and feel. What is the norm and what is considered awkward and out of place? Most of these ideas about how we should be are a product of culture, peer pressure and influence and it can be difficult to know the difference. We are all individuals with unique ideas and beliefs. This defines our perception of life and the way we choose to lead it. Some simple truths have been proven time and time again to help us with how we can be comfortable in our skin:
By Yekinah Alimi4 years ago in Motivation
The Train of Light
What is that noise? And why do I feel like I am moving? I know I drank way too much last night and smoked too much pot, but I know I didn’t fall asleep in the back of somebody’s car! I don’t think I did anyway! I guess it is possible with the way I have been behaving. Still grieving from the death of my daughter, I had not been making the best decisions. My preferred state of being lately has been numb. Life hurts too much. I slowly opened my eyes expecting to see the back of a front seat or have my face smashed against someone’s passenger window, but instead I awoke to find myself lying on the floor of a train! A very fast-moving train. I shot straight up and looked around. Where was I and how did I get here? It took me a few seconds to clear my head to fully comprehend where I was and that this train was moving very fast with no sign of stopping. This was not an ordinary train. Everything was white and made of shiny steel. The seats were like church pews and the windows did not open. I was in the front car, so I could see myself hurling down the tracks! I had to be dreaming. I pinched myself trying to wake up. It did not work. I slapped my face, like in the movies, again I did not wake up! I looked around expecting to see more people and realized that there were only two others in the car with me. They were in the very back and they did not look friendly. They were dark figures in hoodies. Their eyes seemed to glow, and they just stared at me. They were pretty scary! Where was this train heading? How do I make it stop?
By Kathy Kelly4 years ago in Motivation
The Train of Light
What is that noise? And why do I feel like I am moving? I know I drank way too much last night and smoked too much pot, but I know I didn’t fall asleep in the back of somebody’s car! I don’t think I did anyway! I guess it is possible with the way I have been behaving. Still grieving from the death of my daughter, I had not been making the best decisions. My preferred state of being lately has been numb. Life hurts too much. I slowly opened my eyes expecting to see the back of a front seat or have my face smashed against someone’s passenger window, but instead I awoke to find myself lying on the floor of a train! A very fast-moving train. I shot straight up and looked around. Where was I and how did I get here? It took me a few seconds to clear my head to fully comprehend where I was and that this train was moving very fast with no sign of stopping. This was not an ordinary train. Everything was white and made of shiny steel. The seats were like church pews and the windows did not open. I was in the front car, so I could see myself hurling down the tracks! I had to be dreaming. I pinched myself trying to wake up. It did not work. I slapped my face, like in the movies, again I did not wake up! I looked around expecting to see more people and realized that there were only two others in the car with me. They were in the very back and they did not look friendly. They were dark figures in hoodies. Their eyes seemed to glow, and they just stared at me. They were pretty scary! Where was this train heading? How do I make it stop?
By Kathy Kelly4 years ago in Motivation
How I've Failed At Literally Everything I've Tried. Top Story - July 2022.
I used to have a hamster when I was younger; I saved up all my money over a few months and spent it all on a cage, sawdust, an igloo shaped house, a water bottle, hamster food and what I would later find out to be a very obnoxious and aggressive hamster. This seems an odd place to start for an article that has absolutely nothing to do with hamsters, but it feels fitting as while I write this I feel as though I’m caught in an endless cycle. Running from absolutely everything and getting absolutely nowhere. Chocolate, my somewhat disappointing hamster came to mind as I recall endless nights lying awake disturbed by the sound of him running endlessly on the wheel in his cage. That’s exactly how I feel. I remember the day I bought him, I felt drawn to him because he was pressing up against the glass looking for a way out. Perhaps I saw myself in him, me – very much not a hamster trapped in a life I didn’t know how to navigate and constantly – fruitlessly searching for an exit. Not an exit to life itself I’d like to point out, rather an exit to the cycle I’d wound up in.
By Stacey Vella4 years ago in Motivation
process
The setting sun or down the mountain, that wipe endless afterglow will be a brilliant western sky rendering. A group of clouds like a group of a quick and bright charcoal fire, the wind demon dance, colourful colorful aconcheng. Square sky, only this side is still living a prosperous old dream type of life. The rest is sinking and fading. The fading light was returning to darkness, and darkness was returning to night. What's the use of all that brilliance? It wasn't the morning glow, after all. Pinched and extinguished fireworks suddenly turned into cold black charcoal. However, it is gorgeous and worth pursuing. But the night gradually closed the sky, closed the bustling old dream.
By Jane Oxley4 years ago in Motivation
Tire Tread for Transitions
A Bear in Winter I am asleep. With autumn’s shorter days and longer nights, transitioning from summer to winter can be a bear. And I feel like a bear! It’s dark and cold in the morning. I’m snuggled under the covers, and mentally I am ready to pop out of bed for the day, but my body is in the thickets of resistance and cringes at the thought of enduring the brrrrr.
By Jessica Amber Barnum (Jess)4 years ago in Motivation
The Most Painful Revenge And How You Can Seek It…
I’m sure that everyone of you who is reading this may, at some point in your lives, have had this strong desire of vengeance, which might be triggered by another person’s attitude or the circumstances they drove you into. Let’s face it, the feeling of revenge is innate, and it has been so since the history of mankind!
By Shalin Thomas4 years ago in Motivation
