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GET OVER IT THE WRITE WAY
There are events that happen in life that can cripple us from being able to move forward. It can feel like you’re lost in a cave or prison that you cannot escape from. Somewhere in your mind, you know you need to get up and move on. However, you’re just not mentally able to do
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I’M TIRED OF LIVING MY LIFE FOR OTHER PEOPLE
If you are tired of living your life for everyone else, you may not know it, but you’re in a good place. How so? You’ve finally acknowledged what the problem is. Number one – you’re tired. Number two – you realize you aren’t living for yourself. You’re acknowledging this is the first step to changing
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I FEEL TRAPPED IN A LIFE I DON’T WANT
This is one of the worst feelings a person can have. I know, I have been there. There was a time where I felt like nothing was going right for me and I had no true recourse for changing things. It got to the point where I felt like I wanted to end it all.
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WHY WRITING MAKES SENSE FOR IMPROVING YOUR SITUATION?
Writing as therapy has been proven in numerous studies to improve overall mental and physical health. The great thing about writing as therapy is that there are no real limits or restrictions in what you need to do to feel better. There are plenty of articles and studies that demonstrate specific guidelines or options for
- I’M TIRED OF LIVING MY LIFE FOR OTHER PEOPLEIf you are tired of living your life for everyone else, you may not know it, but you’re in a good place. How so? You’ve finally acknowledged what the problem is. Number one – you’re tired. Number two – you realize you aren’t living for… Read more: I’M TIRED OF LIVING MY LIFE FOR OTHER PEOPLE
- I FEEL TRAPPED IN A LIFE I DON’T WANTThis is one of the worst feelings a person can have. I know, I have been there. There was a time where I felt like nothing was going right for me and I had no true recourse for changing things. It got to the point… Read more: I FEEL TRAPPED IN A LIFE I DON’T WANT
- WHY WRITING MAKES SENSE FOR IMPROVING YOUR SITUATION?Writing as therapy has been proven in numerous studies to improve overall mental and physical health. The great thing about writing as therapy is that there are no real limits or restrictions in what you need to do to feel better. There are plenty of… Read more: WHY WRITING MAKES SENSE FOR IMPROVING YOUR SITUATION?
- WHAT TYPES OF WRITING FOR HEALING YOUR PAINThe main thing to know is that ultimately it doesn’t matter what type of writing you do, it only matters that you write from your heart and be willing to express how you feel. Specifically, how you feel about a situation, issues, or a traumatic… Read more: WHAT TYPES OF WRITING FOR HEALING YOUR PAIN
- WHAT’S THE MEANING OF LIFE?Oh boy, this is a big one. If you think I’m going to answer life’s biggest mystery, I’m sorry. The answer to that question is different for every person and that is a good thing. Who would like to live someone’s else’s meaning in life?… Read more: WHAT’S THE MEANING OF LIFE?
- WHAT’S YOUR STORY? IS YOUR LIFE A TRAGEDY OR COMEDY? WILL IT HAVE A SAD OR HAPPY ENDING?What’s your story and how would you tell it? No one can tell your story like you. Certainly, the people around you could tell a story about you but it wouldn’t be truly accurate. Our parents would likely get it wrong in some regards. Our… Read more: WHAT’S YOUR STORY? IS YOUR LIFE A TRAGEDY OR COMEDY? WILL IT HAVE A SAD OR HAPPY ENDING?
- I FEEL LIKE I CAN’T BE MYSELF ANYMORE. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM.When we don’t know who we really are, it is easy to allow other people to make us who they want us to be. It can be a humongous challenge to figure out who we are. So much so that we can give up on… Read more: I FEEL LIKE I CAN’T BE MYSELF ANYMORE. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM.
- WHY CAN’T I BE HAPPY?Do you wonder why you can’t seem to make yourself happy? Does it feel like you will never get out of the funk you are in? I’ve lived there plenty in my life. The problem usually is that we have been taught throughout our life… Read more: WHY CAN’T I BE HAPPY?
- HOPELESSLY HOPELESS & DEVOTED TO DESPAIR.One of the biggest problems in getting over a loss or set-back is your lacking hope. If you have no hope for a better future what do you have? Not much. This is where depression plants itself in your head and the seed begins to… Read more: HOPELESSLY HOPELESS & DEVOTED TO DESPAIR.
- WHY AM I HERE? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE?Are you living or existing? What’s the difference? I equate “existing” to living like an insect or animal, or as fish or bird does. One is born, eats, poops, sleeps, and procreates and then dies. In-between these essentials in life one passes the time wandering,… Read more: WHY AM I HERE? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE?
- WHY A COACH INSTEAD OF A THERAPIST?First of all, I have complete respect for trained and licensed therapists. I have made my way through my journey in life because of a handful of therapists who helped get me to next levels in my life. Some of my issues, required the professional… Read more: WHY A COACH INSTEAD OF A THERAPIST?
- IF YOU’RE NOT YOUR BEST, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WON’T BE EITHERIf you’re not your best self right now, don’t expect your relationships to be their best either. In fact, when you aren’t your best, you are likely to be drawn into a relationship that feeds into you whatever you are struggling with. If you are… Read more: IF YOU’RE NOT YOUR BEST, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WON’T BE EITHER
- WHO AM I? I DON’T KNOW. DO YOU?“I’m nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there’s pair of us!” Emily Dickinson wrote this nearly two-hundred years ago. And here we are all this time later still having an identity crisis about who we are. We have it much easier than… Read more: WHO AM I? I DON’T KNOW. DO YOU?
- WHAT TO I DO WITH MY LIFE?It starts early. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Then it’s “What are you going to do after you graduate from high school?” So much pressure for someone who is under eighteen and still with over 80% of their life to… Read more: WHAT TO I DO WITH MY LIFE?
- GET OVER IT RIGHT NOW! WRITE NOW!Are you struggling with getting over a break-up, the loss of a job, a death, or just simply greiving and finding it hard to move on? Well, get over it! Snap out of it! Is that what people tell you or how it seems they… Read more: GET OVER IT RIGHT NOW! WRITE NOW!
- ONLY WAY TO GET OVER SOMETHING IS TO PUSH THROUGH ITGetting over something whether its a death, a break-up, or a traumatic event can be crippling. Some people can remain in a place of grief and depression for years or even the rest of their lives if they do not get themselves help to process… Read more: ONLY WAY TO GET OVER SOMETHING IS TO PUSH THROUGH IT
- THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A SETBACKWhen we’ve suffered a devestaing loss, it feels like an end. The truth is every end is also a new beginning. After we have had adequate time to grieve (7 PHASES OF GREIF LINK), it is time for us to set a new course. It… Read more: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A SETBACK
- WHY CAN’T I GET MY BUTT OFF THE COUCH AND DO SOMETHING?Where does a lack of motivation come from? We know its not just being comfortable because you wouldn’t read an article with this headline if it was. Is it depression? Is it apathy? Is it hopelessness? Maybe. All of those things and whatever plagues your… Read more: WHY CAN’T I GET MY BUTT OFF THE COUCH AND DO SOMETHING?
- I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH MY PROBLEMSWhy is it when we look at all our problems we get overwhelmed? Yet, we look at someone else’s problems, we think we could handle that. Why is it that our own reflection in the mirror is more complicated than our view of anyone else… Read more: I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH MY PROBLEMS
- WHY CAN’T I BE HAPPY? WHY AM I NOT HAPPY?Life is full of both good and bad things in our living. We know that too much of anything (“Everything in moderation”) isn’t healthy, actually both physcially and mentally. What is it that prevents us from being happy in our lives? Certainly there is some… Read more: WHY CAN’T I BE HAPPY? WHY AM I NOT HAPPY?
- BE HAPPY WITH WHO YOU AREHappiness is that elusive mystery of life. For many it is a far off destination that seems only available to the rich, successful, and those who have passed on from this life into the next. If you ask most people what they want out of… Read more: BE HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE
- WHY DO I CONSTANTLY HURT MYSELF?SELF-DESTRUCTIVE HABITS LIVE IN OUR UNRESOLVED PAIN The ways in which people hurt themselves are endless. Whether it is through hurting ourselves physically with cutting, burning or other areas of self-mutilation or in the relationships we seek out. Perhaps sleeping with partners who abuse us… Read more: WHY DO I CONSTANTLY HURT MYSELF?
- WRITING HEALS ALL WOUNDSThe idea that writing can health whatever ails us certainly sounds absurd. “If it were that easy wouldn’t the world be a healthier, happy place.” You’d think. Something as easy as writing to heal doesn’t get millions of dollars behind it like the latest pharmaceuticals,… Read more: WRITING HEALS ALL WOUNDS
- THE MIND SPIRIT CONNECTION OF WRITINGI learned years ago that I could get to a place I call a “writer’s high.” Like a runner’s high, it feels like I are removed from myself and it’s like I am having a supernatural episode of sorts – like an out of body… Read more: THE MIND SPIRIT CONNECTION OF WRITING
- GET OVER IT THE WRITE WAYThere are events that happen in life that can cripple us from being able to move forward. It can feel like you’re lost in a cave or prison that you cannot escape from. Somewhere in your mind, you know you need to get up and… Read more: GET OVER IT THE WRITE WAY
- I’VE LOST ALL HOPE IN LIFE. WHAT DO I DO?This can be a scary feeling. Trust me. I know. If we are in a place in our life where it feels like everything is going down the wrong way, it can lead us to a place where we think we just can’t take it… Read more: I’VE LOST ALL HOPE IN LIFE. WHAT DO I DO?
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