Living life as it comes
Life can be stressful. Although we may try to be mindful, spiritual, and so on and so forth, it doesn’t always work out the way we hope. After all, we’re all human.
So when life gets you down (and just keeps on stomping), what can you do to save your sanity? Mental breakdowns are never fun.
There comes a time in a person’s life where they start to wonder, “do I have a problem? Am I really doing this life thing right?” If you’re in that point, you might be wondering about therapy. What is it, and do you need it?
So, you’ve been in therapy for a while now. It was rocky at first, but you found someone you clicked with and decided on a treatment plan.
You’ve been working that plan for a while, and things are starting to change for you. You’re seeing results, and you think you might be better now.
So what do you do? You’re beginning to think you don’t need therapy anymore, and you could really use the hour a week for some other activity that you enjoy.
Well, today we’re going to talk about that. How do we know if it’s time to end therapy?
If you’ve been self-harming for a while and wanting to stop, you’ve probably looked up “things to do instead of cutting” before. You may have looked at those long lists of things and wondered, “which one of these should I even do?” Continue reading “10 things to do instead of cutting+a distraction discussion”
Criers. We all know them. They can be annoying, frustrating, and confusing. Most of all, they make us uncomfortable. All we want to do is solve a problem and then there go the waterworks, right? Continue reading “Why on earth would I want to feel my feelings?”
When you’re trying to better yourself, it’s good to get lost in the momentum of it, because it’s a long term goal. Recovering from a mental disorder or trauma can take years, after all.
Continue reading “I’m embarrassed about my past! (Dealing with shame and guilt)”
If you’ve had a trauma in your life and are dealing with the broken remnants of feelings and memories, I highly recommend EMDR.
Continue reading “Lessons I learned from EMDR (trauma therapy)”
So you’ve felt hopeless and devastated. You’ve been terrorized, humiliated, and confused. You’ve decided you have had enough and can’t take it anymore, and you need to know the next step towards moving on.
Continue reading “How to rise up again after abuse, trauma, addiction or injustice”
You have a choice. Each little decision will make up your identity, bit by bit.
A while back, my boyfriend and I were chilling out after a long day of work. After dinner, we found ourselves scrolling through his social media feed to find a picture of a very attractive woman who obviously worked out, wearing very little clothes. We both enjoyed the picture, seeing her aesthetic beauty was certainly a pleasant experience, at least at first. Yet before the hour was over, I found myself spinning in a cyclone of thoughts and subtle emotions, seemingly unable to get out.
