When I envisioned New Years Eve 2013 a few weeks ago, I thought I would be upstate celebrating. Instead, I can’t wait for this holiday season to be over with because the overall cheeriness of this time of year makes it even more difficult for my family and me to mourn the recent loss of […]
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“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
I can’t really bring myself to allow anymore emotions onto the surface other than what I wrote early yesterday morning about my grandfather. I do need to write I just also need to make sure I don’t fall apart in doing so. I thought I would talk about what it was like for me to […]
Handling Setbacks prt 2
I spoke yesterday about handling setbacks and what I believe is a good way to cope when you feel as though you are going to have to deal with any type of challenge, obstacle, or a physical or emotional setback in recovery. I talked about how our minds often wander to places that only cause […]
Handling Setbacks prt 1
Throughout the course of our lives, we are going to have ups and downs. We are going to be doing well for a significant amount of time only to have something unexpected come along and throw us off course. It hopefully won’t be something too traumatic but life is unfortunately a roller coaster. Hopefully you […]
Day 16: Use a Picture or Video to Inspire a Post
The prompt for day 16 of National Health Blog Post Month was to use a picture or video to inspire us to write a post. This picture here is something that I found a number of months ago that was really sticking out in my mind today. I had mentioned in a previous post how […]