Recovery From Sexual Abuse Is A Journey
Author and Life Coach, A.J. Mahari, talks about the reality that sexual abuse recovery is a journey. In many ways it is a life long journey. The actual healing process of recovery may not be life long but there is an element of childhood sexual abuse that is life long. What that is exactly depends upon the choices that one makes in his or her own life.
Creative Artists and Mental Health Issues
Mental Health Issues are prevalent in our society in increasing numbers. From Depression to Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorders, and the fact that the media is shedding light on mental health, the overall effect is that people do not see mental health issues in as negative a light as perhaps they did in the past. Perhaps it is due to the media’s influence that society has changed its views on mental health issues.
Negative Self-Talk and Writing
In order to develop a healthy and enjoyable writing life, we must all learn to curb our habit of negative self-talk before, during and after our writing sessions. Negative self-talk is all of those negative things that we tell ourselves over and over. Negative self-talk can create a lack of confidence and lead to procrastination, or even writer’s block.
Confidence in Writing
Very few writers have complete confidence in their own writing. Even well published authors struggle with their confidence and that usually has a signifcant negative impact on their ability to write consistently. Having confidence means having belief in and trust for one’s own abilty, in this case, to write. Writing is the art and craft of clearly communicating in ways that express what it is one wants to convey. Having some confidence in your ability to do that is necessary for the writer to write.
The View’s Joy Behar Stigmatizes Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder has long been the most stigmatized mental illness. Add to this now The View Co-host Joy Behar stigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder ever further. On The View’s Wednesday October 21, 2009 show in an interview with Glenn Close and her sister who were guests to talk about the importance of combating the stigma against mental illness, namely Bioplar Disorder, which Close’s sister has. Joy Behar, for some reason, who knows why, first had to further stigmatize BPD with inaccurate, uneducated information.
Loneliness – Pervasive, Powerful, & Purposeful
Loneliness is, on one level a universal experience. There is a collective experience, to some degree, by each and every living individual of what it means, from time to time, to be lonely. The degree to which anyone finds loneliness a painful experience, of course, varies and is related to your level of personal awareness and to the choices that you have made and are making in your own life.
New Year’s Resolutions Promote Fat Phobia
The focus on weight loss promoted by a bloated and dysfunctional diet industry causes many New Year’s resolution ideas and media-based stories to focus on people of size in ways that promote fat phobia. Size and self acceptance would be a much more productive New Year’s resolution on the part of everyone.
The Application of Philosophy To Adaptation, Change, and Goal Achievement
The very autonomy that philosophy can give us the freedom to discover and experience is feared by many. We want to be free of our unresolved issues and our pain or discomfort but we are often afraid to part with what is familiar long enough to experience something new.
Balloon Boy Heene Family and Reality TV
Colorado Sheriff Jim Alderden reported today, in a news conference, that not only was the Balloon Boy a hoax but apparently a scam possibly backed and funded by a reality television show. The television show or reality-tv outlet or company was not named.
Balloon Boy Bamboozle A Bust
The Balloon Boy Bamboozle was busted wide open as a hoax after all and right out of the mouth of young Falcon Heene on Larry King Live. There were suspicions beforehand but when Falcon Heenie answered Wolf Blitzer’s question, on CNN’s Lary King Live, about why he hid so long by looking to his father and saying, “… you said we did it for the show” it wasn’t only his words that gave up the hoax but his father’s body language and fumbling around attempting to avert what Falcon had blurted out.
Developing Habits of the Mind As A Writer
Developing habits of the mind as a writer can mean the difference between getting the writing we set out to do done or not. Habits of the mind are central to overcoming endless distractions and what could become a habit of procrastinating that can produce a bout of writer’s block.
The Legacy of Toxic Relationships
Toxic relationships seem to be pervasive to the point where healthy relationships are in the minority. Toxic relationships are proliferating and have been doing so for the better part of the last few decades.
6 Tips to Feel Beautiful Today!
Sarah Maria
Author of Love Your Body, Love Your Life: 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happily and Confidently – How many times have you waited for something to change so that you could finally start feeling beautiful? If you are like most women, the answer is “all the time.”
The Prevention of Cancer in Individuals
Cancer is becoming an epidemic in young Western patients, especially cancer of the breast, colon and prostate. A substantial volume of literature now connects certain types certain types of personalities and lifestyles, and the development of cancer. It is proposed that each individual harbours dormant cancer cells that, given proper psychological and physical conditions, become active. Also, Western culture is often hurried and stressful.
