Miracles Happen…
July 31, 2012
By Guest Blogger
It is crazy how time changes the way you look at things. There was a time when I could not have imagined being where I am today. A time so dark and scary that it literally took my breath away, crippling me with fear in a way only one’s threatened life could! By the time I was 9, I had seen a lot. Truth is, most of the memories I have of my childhood are… Read More >
What You Can Expect On Your First Day of Chemotherapy
October 20, 2011
By Guest Blogger
I remember my first chemotherapy treatment like it was yesterday. I was only 16 years old, and I’d been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I’d had surgery to remove a lump on my neck, and chemo was the next step. Walking into that oncology office for the first time, I remember feeling scared and confused. I didn’t really understand what was happening. Looking back, I know now that’s what makes the first chemotherapy treatment so frightening—you… Read More >
Embracing the Unknown
September 22, 2011
By Leslie Carr Psy.D.
Recently in my life I have been faced with a considerable amount of uncertainty. As my partner and I decide whether we want to have children and, pending our conclusion, whether we should get married, I’m forced to confront the fact that I do not currently know what the future has in store for me. When all of this came up a couple of months ago, it was a shock for me. Until that point… Read More >
Foods That Help With Stress and Anxiety
June 27, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Most of us are under tons of pressure lately. Whether it’s health, finances, climate change, politics, family or all of the above getting you down, these are tough times. But there is a way out of it. Taking a pill is the way a lot of people are coping with anxiety and high levels of stress. The bad news is most of the time those pills don’t work or cause side effects that suck. And… Read More >
Addicted to Stress
May 19, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Every thought, every emotion that we experience can be as addictive as any drug. Every idea that we have about life, every thought and emotion we feel has a chemical reaction in the mind and body. This constant flow of chemicals creates the most complex laboratory possible, and we all have one that is in constant change. What an amazing, mysterious and powerful tool the mind can really be! In there lies infinite potential. It’s… Read More >
The Tumor on My Last Nerve
March 1, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Sandra Joseph Did you know you have twelve nerves in your head? I don’t get too picky about the exact whereabouts, but I know that they are located somewhere around your brain stem and each one has a different gig. For example, your eighth cranial nerve controls the hearing in your left ear. Or maybe it’s the right ear. I’m absolutely certain about the job of the last one, the twelfth cranial nerve. It… Read More >
Your Friend, Anxiety
December 3, 2010
By Danielle LaPorte
Tummy trembles. Brain fuzz. That discombobulating feeling that you’re not quite sure what you should be doing, but you should be doing something to keep your act together. Anxiety. Sometimes it slips away with a few deep breaths, other times you need to beat it off with a stick or some little white pills. Naturally, we want to try to get as far away from anxiety as possible – which usually just results in us… Read More >
30 and Unemployed
April 15, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Sierra Brasher I have spent the last 30 years viewing the world from a standing position and believing that my career was a definition of who I am. This false perception misled me to thinking that it’s okay to allow fear and anxiety to rule my world, as long as it is in the name of “success.” I recently read that pandas upend themselves into handstands to show their peers that they are bamboo-thrashing… Read More >
How to Stand Up to Your Inner Mean Girl
March 16, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Amy Ahlers “You don’t deserve it.” “Who do you think you are?” “This will never work out for you, you know that, right?” Recognize that voice? It’s the voice of your Inner Mean Girl. She’s negative. She’s catty. She’s judgmental. She compares your worst to everyone else’s best—in her eyes, you lose every time. She spews cruel words at you and makes you feel like you are in seventh grade again. Her favorite thing… Read More >
