I am no expert, but I want to share my cancer battles and my mental health journey with you, some stress reduction ideas for your life, and hopefully some fun things along the way. Plus strategies I have found successful for me and give you tools for success with your health and life. Life can knock us down through health or life challenges 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!
New Year's resolution. Uuggghhh. I can just hear the groaning from you. I get it. I totally get it. It's just one of those things that comes around every year whether you like it or hate it. Lots of people have lots of suggestions and hints and explanations. Helpful or not. I'm wanting to take …
Have you done much travelling? It doesn't necessarily need to be going across the globe to a far away place. It could just maybe going to the country next door and exploring. Do you enjoy travel? Seeing new places and finding new things? Travelling and seeing different places and new cultures have so many benefits …
Wondering if you need to act like a bear probably isn't your usual thought process but stick with me here. Winter has finally arrived in full force recently, at least here on the prairies. It arrived with the usual unexpectedness to many people who live where I live. It's the end of October and having …
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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 …
Melodee Glassford 