I Chased Small Wins and It’s Giving Me Freedom
When I started focusing on small wins instead of pursuing the big, grand picture, I discovered the most success I’ve ever had.
Simple Tricks for Managing Impulse Control
Impulse control can feel like an overwhelming challenge to tackle. When we step back, we see there are some simple steps we can take to manage it.
Relationships: Do I Stay or Do I Go?
As we rethink our approaches to life, relationships are one area that naturally come up for examination: Do we stay or do we go?
When Best Practices Fail You
Too often, we take these best practices as gospel-truth and get frustrated when we don’t see the results we expected. So what goes wrong?
Three Tips for Managing Your Emotions
Living with a mental illness, we live with more intense emotions. Learning to manage our emotions healthily is a vital part of the process.
Hidden Triggers: Uncovering and Understanding
It can take time and careful examination, but identifying our hidden triggers is an important step on our road to mental health.
James Prescott Talks About Triggers
James Prescott shares his story of encountering triggers and shares what he’s learned about identifying and managing them.
Radical Acceptance: Accepting the Unacceptable
With some difficult situations, our only choice is radical acceptance; we gain peace when we acknowledge we cannot change or fix a situation.
You Are Not Your Disorder
You are not your diagnosis. People living with cancer say, “I have cancer,” not “I am cancer.” Your illness is simply that: an illness. It may influence your life, and you may have to learn to manage your symptoms, but it doesn’t define you.
I Should Be Able to Handle This: Ending Chaos
Everyone hits a crisis point, a point at which they look around at their lives and wonder how they got to that point. Life is chaos, and chaos destabilizes.
Casting Off Shoulds Leads to Better Living
“Shoulds” are boundary-crossers. The real problem is when we adopt these external “shoulds” for ourselves. Casting them off can change our lives.
Resilience Is the Goal of Mental Health
When we talk about getting better, we often define our goal as achieving mental health. But what is mental health? What does it mean to be mentally healthy? How do we know if we’ve achieved this magical goal, the goal for which we hold out so much hope?
Three Christian Myths on Mental Illness
The Christian community has much to offer those of us living with a mental illness. Unfortunately, three common Christian myths often hold us back.
Overcoming Social Anxiety During the Holidays
The holidays can be a lot of fun and they can be very stressful. I’ve compiled a list of tips for handling social anxiety at holiday parties.
Opposite Ideas Can Both Be True
It seems logical to think that, when ideas are in seeming opposition to each other, only one can be true. Yet, many time, opposite ideas can both be true.
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