Self-Validating Our Experiences Empowers Us
This is what self-validating is genuinely about: Acknowledging that the feelings we have are real and that they belong in the situation.
Validate Your Ticket, Please!
What do you do when the person who is responsible for caring for you…doesn’t? How do you learn to validate your experiences?
Doing Disorder Research Is Vital
It can be scary to think about learning more about our disorders. Yet, disorder research is critical to our ability to advocate and care for ourselves.
A Life Worth Living Is the Reward for Our Work
Doing the hard work of mental health recovery helps us do more than gain resiliency. It helps us build a better life. A life worth living.
My Prayer for Healing Upturned My Life
Post-baptism, I spent the next few days in shock at my daring. As much as I knew I believed and my faith was true, claiming the title “Christian” felt dissonant. Yet, here I was, a fully-baptized, genuine believer and follower of Jesus Christ, and I wondered: “What happens now?”
They’re Symptoms, Not an Excuse
It can be easy to fall back on our symptoms and use them as an excuse for our behavior. Yet, it is our responsibility to manage those symptoms.
Self-Soothe in a Crisis Using the 5 Senses
When we hit a crisis, it’s awful. Our ability to respond normally is lost to us. Thankfully, we have options to self-soothe ourselves.
Wise Mind Keeps Us Balanced
We primarily have two mindsets: Reasonable Mind and Emotion Mind. Finding the balance between these two results in the third, ideal mindset: Wise Mind.
Accepting Help Is a Sign of Strength
Too often, we think of accepting help as a sign of weakness. In reality, knowing when and how to accept help from our network is a sign of strength.
Sometimes Grief Is Buying a New Car
Grieving all the changes we have in our lives is important. Even so, I was surprised when buying a new car meant I had to grieve the old one.