I was looking through some of the tech blogs I normally read, when I discovered something that touched that part of me that struggles with depression and self-esteem issues. It was this post on “Just Another Geek’s Blog that touched me:
“When the realization hit that I was ‘happy with myself’ for that one moment it was staggering.”
I imagine it was, and it’s most defintely too rare a thing to have those moments, that’s for sure! I hope we can all find a way to have more
My wife has a description of what we call my neice’s “full body smile”, and she’s right. It’s something that far too many adults don’t know how to do anymore. We’ve really lost the ability to simply feel the unbridled joy of a particular moment. We tend to think of people who do it as…
Pin I’m sure by now you’ve read enough articles, blog posts and social media messages about making your resolutions for 2019. This is not one of those. It’s not that I’m against it. The end of one year and the beginning of another is a good opportunity to pause and reflect on where we have been,…
Found in an entry at Jennet.Radio, and actually taken from a longer piece at sugarfused.net: I, for one, will not allow my spirit to be consumed by worry, doubt or fear. Those things may trickle in from time to time but life is too short to squander away on such things. I have to work…
I saw this quote the other day, by Cristian Nestell Bovee, on a LinkedIn status, and I thought to myself, what a perfect way to think about overcoming childhood abuse. There are many who would tell us that the pain of child abuse is so awful that it’s worse than death. That victims of horrific…
You know, I’ve read a lot of political blogs, from all sides of the political spectrum and I’m struck by just how angry and hateful a lot of people are. Life’s too short to waste so much energy being angry and hating. All that bile and angst just ends up hurting you in the end….
Pin I was reading an article recently written by college professor Rupert W Nacoste Ph.D. on Psychology Today’s website. In it, he talks about a student who suggested he include mental health conditions as an example of neo-diversity. It’s an interesting article, on a couple of levels. First, the reality of how much we can negatively…
