The anxiety of COVID-19 is no different. Even Though it doesn’t feel like you do, you nonetheless have a choice as to how you will respond to recent events. I’ve created a list of unhealthy (deceased) vs. healthy (healing) postures toward the uncharted waters of COVID-19…
Read MoreWhile I believe this is a great time to help other people, I also think this is the time we need to pay special attention to our own mental health and specifically how much negative information we will allow/invite into our brains during this crisis. Too little and we may not be facing the brutal facts of our situation. Too much and we may bog ourselves down, hurting our efforts to move, work and/or study in these trying times. For your own mental health, I believe you can take proactive steps during this time…
Read MoreI chase the moments that continuously catch my passion on fire. I’ve heard these times referred to as thin spaces. Referring to when the space between us and God is thin. Like having a baby, getting married, achieving the unachievable, surviving cancer, etc. They close the gap between us and God—not a bad place to be if you ask me…
Read MoreHave you ever thought about how life could have been? Of course, you have. We all do. But, do you dwell on this like an ex-lover does “the song?” As the philosopher Plato proposes, is there a parallel universe wherein your perfect self has front row tickets watching you continuously screw things up? I can imagine my split-self now, “what’s wrong with you man? Awesome is spelled A-W-E-S-O-M-E, not Ausome. I literally just tried to spell awesome on my phone for 5 minutes. Never once did I start with Awe…Wow…
Read MoreYears ago, in the middle of my agoraphobic, social phobic, depressed state, you could’ve never convinced me that healing from mental illness was possible, probable even. Like a tornado crushes a trailer park, mental illness ravaged my entire life. And I couldn’t see beyond the swirling debris the tornado of mental illness was tossing all around me…
Read MoreYears ago, I believed peace was something we got and kept when we figured out its magic formula. The harder I tried to catch it, the quicker it moved away though…like trying to grab a fly. Then, after open-heart surgery, I discovered that I’d been on the road of peace for quite some time. I was just driving so intently that I didn't see the signage…
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