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If only curing depression were that easy. Depression is not a condition a person can turn on and off like a light switch. Depression is a...

How do I describe depression? It feels like I am walking through quicksand, and the harder I try to escape from it, the more entrenched I...

Let’s just be real here. Families are complicated, and the holidays bring out the worst in everyone. Everyone is overtired and spread...

I spin, twirl, shake, leap. You’re still there as I watch others. You’re in my mind as I create. You’re telling me I’m bad – I’m going to...

Can I be honest? Sometimes I get too tired for hope. Some days I don’t think I have any authority to tell you things will get better...

It’s pretty obvious that every one of us wants to feel that oh-so-popular “high self-esteem”, right? It’s drilled in us since we’re...

We are all icebergs floating along in the sea of life. Only part of us is visible. My visible iceberg: brother, son, actor, artist,...

I know your frustrated and so am I. I hate that I hate myself and that I hate my life. I’m trying so hard to get better. It feels like...

Right now I am learning not to hate my darkness. I want to accept it. Say hello knowing that it will lift. After the dreary storm comes...

Short, simple, but very effective. “Are you sure?” allows me to take the bait if I want to and open up a bit, or reply with a “yeah, I’m...

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze It means no worries For the rest of your days It's our...

Sitting in a Starbucks I quickly recognize music from OZ. Clearly the beginning of Over the Rainbow is instrumental.....then the song...

What happens when your life starts falling apart? Do you try desperately to hold it together so you won’t feel like a failure or would...

Not everyone can clearly state their sense of purpose . When you know what drives you in life, you can have something specific to work...

Awareness is the ability to step back a little from what your feeling-mind is doing and to see it in action. In my case, that small...

Your sense of purpose is what drives you and brings you fulfillment. It can also be difficult to connect to it when you’re feeling...

I’m aware that I’m tearing myself down. I see what I’m doing to myself, and another level of awareness opens up. I want to stop the...

Depression gifts you with extraordinarily vivid, powerful, detailed memories of all your mistakes, failures, weaknesses, embarrassments....

Sadly our attitudes are often filled with negativity and these feelings march us right into our negative future. We are chained to our...

I doubt that there isn’t one among us who hasn’t heard that loud and booming inner voice expressing every little thing that’s not right....