Recovery

Basic communication guidelines

Here are some basic communication guidelines when you are dealing with someone with a mental illness. Of course, they will work with anyone. 1. Use short, clear direct sentences. Long, […]

NAMI

This past weekend I spent over 20 hrs in training to become a facilitator for NAMI’s Family to Family classes. It was a grueling 20 hrs. Yesterday when I got […]

Inch by inch

“Inch by inch life’s a cinch, yard by yard, life is hard.” I don’t know where it came from. I was in fifth grade when I heard it the first […]

simple’ology

I am posting extra today about simple’ology. I checked it out once. It is a good program about getting what you want. They have a program that you go through […]

Relationships

I wanted to talk about relationships today. One of the problems that borderlines have are dealing with relationships. We tend to have unstable personal relationships. In fact, that is one […]

Finding balance…

As I was wondering what to write about today, I was thinking about yesterday. I got a lot done yesterday in some areas. I wrote a lot. I got some […]

Three Steps to Better Self-Esteem

You can change your self esteem. Why would you want to? There are consequences to low self-esteem. They are: anxiety, stress, loneliness and increased likelihood of depression problems with friendships […]

Improving the self image

Having a negative self image is something a lot of people suffer from. I have that problem too. Actually, my self image has improved a lot lately. It has been […]

Ways to overcome stress – pt 2

Here I am with part 2 with ways to overcoming stress. 14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut) This single piece of advice can prevent an enormous amount of trouble. 15. Do […]

Ways to overcome stress – part 1

I talked about stressors in our lives the other day. Today I am going to talk about some ways to deal with stress. I will start with some. Then I […]