I am no expert, but I want to share my cancer battles and my journey through depression with you, and some stress reduction ideas for your life. Plus strategies I have found successful and give you tools for success with your health and life. Life can knock us down through health or life difficulties but that doesn't need to stop us. Welcome friends, I am so glad you are here and that you learn something helpful along the way!
When you are searching for answers, so often it can feel like you are spinning in circles. Spinning around and around trying to find what you are looking for. We can experience this for so many different situations in our lives but I am going to focus on the health part of our lives. Raise …
Stories. Some people open up a conversation by asking, "So what's your story?" or "Tell me a story." What would you say to that? Would that strike fear in to your soul? I admit there have been moments in my life when the fear of doing that was tangible. Do you have a story to …
When you look in the mirror what do you see? You might see a lot of things. Or you might only see one thing. You will see yourself of course. But what does that mean? When you see yourself do you see something else or someone else? Do you only see the identity you have …
Anyone who has played sports or watched sports ever (which includes lots of you I'm sure), might scoff at the idea of sports being good for mental health. Yet many others might inwardly say, “of course it is, you fool!” What I want to focus on is watching sports, after acknowledging that playing sports is …
After all of the years I have spent going through depression, the best descriptor of my journey with depression, is that it was a fog. Yes a fog. Sometimes it was a thick paralyzing fog, and other times it was much less thick, yet still hanging in there. A thick, foggy mess. So disorientating. My …
Back in my early twenties I learned a lesson that kicked me in the butt. I went to a city in a different country where I was hit in the face with the impoverished lives of people. I was really unprepared for what I was going to see. That kind of poverty you cannot truly …
There is no doubt all of us do this or have done this at some point. Compare our self with someone else. When we compare ourselves to others, in the end we are the ones that lose. Lose joy, peace, contentment, mental health and possibly relationships. Yet, so many of us live in that mindset …
Well the day has swung around again. It's Bell Let's Talk day. Bell Let's Talk is a day set aside in Canada to give attention to and fundraiser for mental health, since it began in 2010. Today, Bell will donate more towards mental health initiatives in Canada by contributing 5¢ for every applicable text, call, …
Therapy. Counseling. Physiologist. Yikes, those words can strike fear in to so many. I can totally relate, since I used to feel that way too. I had initially gone to see a therapist for counseling. That was a short lived experience and didn't go exactly the way I thought it would. But that didn't make …
Did you ever have something happen or change in your life where you just knew it was so right? Maybe it was just a little forward step of faith and it was the right step to take? Sometimes those things or thoughts are unexplainable, but it is God leading our path. Or maybe you felt …
Melodee Glassford 