I have a friend that lost her phone. Someone found it and wouldn’t give it back. It was a prepaid. She started making calls on it to use up the time. I told her to let it go. It was only a small $35 phone. It wasn’t enough to develop a resentment over. She tried […]
Sometimes this world is a very negative place. The news is filled with the negative. The newspapers are filled with the negative. It is like no one wants to hear the good news that is going on in the world. But in order to make it in the world, we need to fill our thoughts […]
I went to a NAMI meeting last night to hear about CIT training. NAMI stands for National Alliance for Mental Illness. There is probably an affiliate near you. They are all over the US. CIT stands for Crisis In Training which is what police officers receive so they can handle the mentally ill while they […]
It has been a difficult last six weeks or so. I have been dealing with life on life’s terms, I guess you could say. I feel like I have been in a fog. I haven’t accomplished much at all in the past month. I have been doing my recovery work though. I have been going […]
I want to wish all of you a Happy Independence Day. Have a great day of recovery in all your celebrations. My youngest turned 12 yesterday. For the longest time he thought everyone was celebrating his birthday with all the fireworks. My baby is growing up. He received notice of a scholarship to a summer […]
Expectations…we all get them. When we get them and they are not met, we get disappointed. I had some expectations recently that did not get met. I had some trust broken. I got hurt. I have been battling that for a while. But I took some steps to overcome the negative feelings that I was […]
Someone asked if it was worth stopping cutting. YES! It is a great release when you gain victory over cutting. I haven’t cut since Dec 2004. I have had the urge a few times, but I have managed to not cut. It wasn’t easy in the beginning. When I first read “Scarred Soul” I really […]
I talked about self-injuring last week. I wanted to talk about a good book called “Scarred Soul” by Dr Tracy Alderman today. It will give you some tips on how to stop self injurous behaviour if you desire to do so. Below is a checklist from page 132 from the book to see if you […]
In a previous entry I mentioned about self-injury. I said I would talk about it in the future. I decided to talk about it today. There are a lot of people who self-injure. Some people consider people who get tatoos be self injurers. I am not going to judge. Right now I am talking about […]
Sometimes life comes up and bites you on the butt. Last week was very stressful for me, but I got through it. I used my tools that I had learned in recovery to take care of myself. I had one day that was very difficult. I have been rediagnosed with Meniere’s Disease. I received the […]