I’m sharing these books for those of you who want to change your life and the way you look at it. Each of these books has had such a positive impact on my mental wellness, and truly helped me on my journey of healing from depression and anxiety. Every book on this list taught me a lot, and made…
If you’ve been following along from part one of the search for the secrets to mastering life, you know I planned an interview with my grandmother. I wanted to know what she had learned about life and contentedness in her 89 years of living. I’ve never seen anyone more resilient, able to smile through anything, or who truly lives…
Before I had my Life Planner, I had no idea I even needed one. Honestly, I wasn’t even sure what a Life Planner was, I had never owned one before. Now that I have one, I can’t imagine life without it! I have always had a hard time staying organized and keeping up with all the things I’m juggling…
This is the beginning of my journey to understand the secrets to mastering life. For the last several years, I have been doing a lot of soul searching. I’ve worked really hard on myself, and I’ve come a long way from where I used to be. I know I have so much more to learn, I believe it’s a…
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai Lama In this guest post by Dileep Tiwari, you’ll learn some important things to practice in order to help you find mental peace. ATTAIN MENTAL PEACE It is difficult to attain mental peace in the hectic lifestyle of modern era. The professional, familial, and social demands push…
Guest post by Anna Fox As someone who suffers from anxiety myself, along with the frantic nature of ADHD mixed with just a dash of depression, I understand how constantly overwhelming things can get. Taking care of kids, keeping the household moving, working a job you hate but need to keep food on the table, or even trying to…
Anxiety and depression in teens is rising at an alarming rate, and has been since around 2012. It’s become a frightening epidemic over the last several years, but why? What is causing this sudden spike in both anxiety and depression in our teens? To answer this question, there are a number of factors to consider. If we’re going to…
What does a panic attack feel like? Imagine a moment in your life where you felt an extreme amount of fear. Take that extreme fear, and combine it with feeling like you’re about to die – either from suffocation or a heart attack, and you’re feeling every moment of all of these, and there’s nothing you can do about…
The Cold Within I first read The Cold Within poem when I was in ninth grade, in a creative writing class I was taking at the time. The words and the meaning behind this poem have stuck with me ever since. This was twenty-four years ago, and anytime I think about this poem and its meaning, it reminds me that…
“There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war” ~ Gary Zukav Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that changes the way people think, feel, and act. The worst part of this mental disorder is that most people don’t have any idea about the warning signs of schizophrenia. Some people don’t even know that there is a…