How To Deal With a Backslide: Have you experienced an unexpected and severe backslide in your mental health journey? I certainly have. In fact, I just recently felt like I’d stepped five years backwards in my mental health journey. Long story short, trauma reared its ugly head in a very bad and unexpected way. In …
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5 Affirmations for the Recovering Perfectionist: Hi, I’m Maria and I’m a recovering perfectionist. Yep, that’s right – I’m one of those people. The try hards who get A++s, have happy looking family lives, and get promoted easily and effortlessly. The world loves to to razz perfectionists because we seem…well…so perfect. But the truth is …
It’s Never Too Late to Heal: Our soul story today comes from the incredible Brenda of Ruby Hem Ministries. On her blog, Brenda writes about her journey through a troubled and tumultuous youth which left her with PTSD and CPTSD later in life. After 40 years of running from her feelings, Brenda finally decided to …
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Have you ever overreacted? Like, have you ever been in a situation where emotions seem to take over? Where you reacted based on the way you felt in the moment rather than on logic? Of course! We all have! It’s part of being human! But what happens when your overreaction gauge seems to be stuck …
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JULY 6, 2019 | MMORRAN1 | EDIT “WHEN WE MEET REAL TRAGEDY IN LIFE, WE CAN REACT IN TWO WAYS – EITHER BY LOSING HOPE…OR BY USING THE CHALLENGE TO FIND OUR INNER STRENGTH..” – DALAI LAMA My name is Maria and this is my story: Our story opens with me sobbing uncontrollably in nothing but a hospital …
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending”
My body is the least interesting thing about me. I’ll say it again for the folks in the back: my body is the least interesting thing about me. It’s taken me years to get to this earth-shattering thought. How exactly did I get here? Well to figure that out – we have to go back, …
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