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!
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 …
I recently was listening to a wise woman sharing her difficult past, and she was asked what is the best thing to bring healing to yourself. Her answer was laughter and telling her story. Healing has come to her through telling and sharing her story. That impacted me greatly, as I think sharing is a …
Vulnerability. That word gives me chills. Maybe that word gives you chills too. What happens when you are vulnerable? Or maybe I should ask what do you THINK will happen when you are vulnerable? Most of us can have a heap load of fear about being vulnerable. Or maybe some don't even know how to …
Melodee Glassford 