Moving Forward
Life consistently and constantly brings changes; good changes, challenging changes and sometimes very difficult changes. Everyone experiences this. You, nor I, are unique in this. For example, this...
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Perfectionism Disaster
I have this little problem called perfectionism. You wouldn't know it by inspecting my closet, office, or by the haphazard way I have my shoes at the door. However, I assure you it rears its ugly head...
View ArticleIs Meditation for Kooks? Okay Then, Call Me One
I used to think meditation was for kooks. As a child, I stumbled on my biological father's mini-shrine one visit. He said, "don't go in there." Naturally my sister and I did the minute he went upstairs...
View ArticleInspirational Quotes and Sayings
This is a bit painful to admit but I probably should attend a 12-step program for people who are addicted to Pinterest. Nearly every night before bedtime I have to check out Pinterest. It’s like my...
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Meditation Take Two
I have come to love meditation. I know, I know, I wrote about it last post already; but I cannot praise it enough. I stumbled on it last year when needed it. I mentioned I found a free meditation...
View ArticleStruggles Bring Strength
Last week I lifted a few weights at the gym. It reminded me why I had not been lifting weights; my arms get sore! I hate the ache that follows. I confess that I am by nature a couch-potato. Most...
View ArticleBen Behind His Voices: A Review
I was on vacation last week and I found this to be a great opportunity to read a book that’s been on my reading list for quite a while. It’s called by Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey From...
View ArticleWhere I've Been
So I’ve been absent from this blog for about 2 ½ months now. In mid-May, I was the unfortunate victim of a hit-and-run pedestrian incident. I avoid the word “accident”, because the person whose SUV...
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Fear or Courage?
Fear is what drives what I do or don’t do far too often. When I make choices that are based upon a fear it usually does nothing for my recovery. Fear is not my friend. It keeps me from moving...
View ArticleSimply the Best: Getting the Top Psychiatrist You Can Afford
I don't know about you, but I have been to some real wing-dinger psychiatrists. Once I was on nine medications at a local clinic. Then, there was the the psychiatrist who made me journal - and read...
View ArticleChoosing to Live!
Far too many of us know that when you’re in a depressed state it is so difficult to choose to live. That is, to get up and live each day. In other words, when depressed you are alive, but choosing to...
View ArticleThe Thing about Artists & Depression
The wall-to-wall media coverage of artistic genius Robin Williams’ death this week should not be about our painful, collective loss of another Hollywood celebrity. It must be about highlighting the...
View ArticleA Very Important List!
Recently I started a list. Lists help me remember things and allow me to stay focused on what I need to get done. This new list that I have started is a list of things that I have done or am doing to...
View ArticleOne Person Can Make a Difference
It was January 13, 1988. I was in a counseling session with my therapist Dick. I had been working with him for a while so he knew my patterns well. He knew that if I continued to abuse drugs and...
View ArticleInflammation & Mood
About two months after the mid-May incident in which a hit-and-run driver crushed my collarbone, requiring surgery, and to date 3 ½ months of recovery, I began to fall hard and steep into depression....
View ArticleThe List Goes On!
Last week I started a list of things that I did and still do in order to recover and get "ontop" of bipolar disorder. So, this week I'm adding 12 more things to my list. I'm keeping track of items...
View ArticleShe's in Mania, Mania Oh No
The end of August and beginning of September is the worst time of year for me mania-wise. I'm on spending lockdown, when all I want to do is shop on-line and plan vacations. I talk a mile a minute to...
View Article“I think therefore I am”
Thoughts can be very powerful things. When I was actively using drugs, my thinking was centered on the getting and finding ways and means to get more. This resulted in an obsessive-behavior thought...
View ArticleMoving Mountains
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and...
View ArticleThe Relative Comfort of Rage
Today, after experiencing three separate, back-to-back incidents of individuals being rude and thoughtless, I thought how easy it would be for me to just stay enraged at all of it. First, a woman...
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