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Your Mental Health and COVID-19
Your Mental Health and COVID-19

While 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…

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Anxiety, Mental Health InsightsJeff MoweryRestoring Lives Counseling Services depression, anxiety, hope, peace, mental health, crisis, self crisis Comment
Face to Face With Who You Could've Been
Face to Face With Who You Could've Been

Have 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…

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Mental Health InsightsJeff MoweryRestoring Lives Counseling true self, authentic self, depression, self actualization Comment
Healing From Mental Illness: What You Can't See, You Can't See
Healing From Mental Illness: What You Can't See, You Can't See

Years 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…

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Mental Health Insights, Emotional HealingJeff Mowery1802 Chapel Hills Dr. hope, peace, mental illness, help, anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, social phobia, hopelessness Comments