Bingeing is commonly misunderstood as being simply an inability to control one’s self or a problem with greed and gluttony. Just like with any addictive or compulsive behavior, there are often deeper meanings behind people’s bingeing. Using food bingeing as an example, bingers will eat long past when they are full, until they are uncomfortable, […]
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How Can I Learn to Embrace my Pain?
When it comes to our pain, our usual and customary response is to want to reject it, remove it from ourselves, and feel it as little as possible. Our depression, anxiety and other mental health issues are often the responses we have to our pain when we haven’t learned healthy strategies for coping with it. […]
Understanding Bullying
We usually associate bullying with mean-spirited children picking on and abusing innocent children, but bullying is a phenomenon that happens with people of all ages, and the principles are the same for both adults and children. Many of us who experience addiction and mental health issues at one time or another have been bullied in […]
How Can I Have a More Optimistic Outlook?
When we are struggling with addictions and mental health issues, many of us have adopted negative ways of thinking that influence our behaviors, our patterns, our overall energy. How do we change our outlook to be more positive, in order to manifest more of what we want in life? Being optimistic is a habit that, […]
You Are Not Your Illness
Many of us living with addictions and mental illnesses can find ourselves so consumed with our afflictions that we end up centering our identities around them and creating our lives based upon them. As we recover, we come to see that our illnesses are just one part of us. They don’t have to define all […]
What Can Celebrities’ Addiction Stories Teach Us?
When celebrities are vocal about their struggles with addiction, there is a lot we can learn from their stories. We are reminded of the realities of human nature and of the extent of our pain, how difficult and debilitating it can be. When a celebrity opens up about addiction, we are reminded that we are […]
Becoming Aware of Our Stress
Often when we are struggling, we have buried our emotions so far down within ourselves, under our duties and obligations, under the logistics of our daily lives, under our prioritization of other people over ourselves – that we often aren’t conscious when we’re experiencing toxic levels of stress. Stress is a normal part of life, […]
How Do I Transform My Limiting Beliefs?
When we become more mindful of our self-talk and limiting beliefs, we can start to shift our perception and create healthier, more empowering beliefs about ourselves. This process takes time and practice but is invaluable to our recovery. When we work to believe in ourselves, our potential for healing grows exponentially. Let’s take our limiting […]
How Do I Discover What My Limiting Beliefs Are?
Many of our addictions and mental health issues are driven, compounded and exacerbated by the limiting beliefs we’ve developed about ourselves. We hold onto them as though they are the truth of who we are. Often they have become so ingrained within us that we can’t separate them from our true selves. They’ve become part […]
Mental Health Awareness Week is October 7-13, 2018 – Here are Some Things We Can Do for Each Other
If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, PLEASE get help. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK (8255). In honor of Mental Health Awareness Week in October, let’s take a look at some ways in which we can be more supportive of each other when it comes to our mental and emotional health. With […]