Category: coping skills
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Running to Overcome Anxiety
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This is a guest post by a friend I met on a blogging Facebook group, who blogs about running and faith and mental health at RunningForWellness.com. Lauren is all about running to help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and incorporates talk therapy and medication into her life too. Today…
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Journaling: Your Private Script for Managing Life
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The Process and Its Points Journaling can be a way to get all the guck out, an outlet and release for your stress and unhealthy thoughts. It can be used as what sometimes is coined as a brain dump; an anti-hoarding defense mechanism to help us deal with and hopefully…
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One Surefire Strategy to Escape Boredom
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The Lotus Flower To escape boredom, try this brainstorming technique. I picked it up from the book ThinkerToys – which is a super helpful book on methods of thinking outside-the-box. This is also known as “mind-mapping” in some places. Start with a circle in the center of the page and…
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7 Ways To Stay Sane in Quarantine
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We now have the time at home to pause and reevaluate our lives. We can rearrange our days to remain sane and maintain healthy lifestyles that we haven’t been able to prior to this time. Let’s reframe our perspective on the measures we take now for our jobs and the…
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Lessons Learned in the Loss of Our Son
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The past two weeks have come and gone and I’m left changed forever. I’ve learned some large lessons in life in seeing my baby boy Jaxon come into the world and leave in eight days. The love I have for my son and his brief time with my husband and…
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6 Simple Reasons to Give Thanks for Your Mental Illness
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It helps us to feel more: Having a mental illness can make us more empathetic toward others and feel more deeply and be more compassionate It helps us help others: When we’ve come through the valley, we can tell our story to encourage others It helps us fear God: Our…
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How Maintenance Keeps Me Sane
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I am by no means a “high maintenance” girl. I prefer my shoes flat, my nails untouched, and my hair usually ‘come as you are’. T-shirts and jeans, sneakers, and minimal makeup. What Maintenance Means To Me I have to be real: hygiene is still important to my maintenance of…
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How Church Keeps Me Sane
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Sundays are Special When I recognized that Sundays were the days we attended church, I also keyed into the weather and found the sun had a way of shining brighter on those days. So it seemed. Maybe it was that it was the Lord’s day, and on those days I…
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Get a Social Life! (really, it’ll do you good)
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We live in a day where isolation is a norm. In our world of screens and social media, individuals are reporting high levels of feelings of loneliness. The research has shown that staying in our own little worlds is harmful. Interacting in person, face to face, is an innate human…
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Not Crazy, Creative
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In last month’s post, I briefly compiled a list of 9 self-care activities in 3 parts, here, here and here, that keep me from going back into a bipolar episode. In this post I’m digging deeper into the activity of creativity. The definition of crazy, as you probably already know:…