I do this exercise when I feel a panic attack coming on. So if you're heading out into the world that is now attempting to function at a "new normal", and you're feeling especially anxious, keep this exercise handy. You really can do it anywhere, anyt...

When you let yourself embrace that all you can do is understand and take care of your own self, thoughts and actions, a whole new world opens up. It's freeing and feels like you are walking in the clouds (now I understand that old saying a bit better ). This in tur...

You cannot change the entire world, only your perception and how you grow and learn and that is half the battle, really.

I clawed my way through the depths of Hell that made me think I needed to drink to blackout and will not go back! Maybe there is a better way than drinking my way through it? But where in the world do we, as alcoholics start? How does someone deal if they are strugglin...

How else can we maintain peace during these times of uncertainty and most of us practicing our social distancing and isolating at home? Here are ten ideas:

Until your Inner Child is beginning to shine its light, and your intuition is back at full strength, continue to take your time. (I thought I had, and believe me, I was a million per cent wrong, and was caused additional trauma as a result.)

As I promised in the title of this post, I have ten leaning forward and upward ideas for us all, as we together close out this decade and begin a new chapter in a new decade.

Drowning in Symptoms can take your Breath away

Full Spectrum Treatment Needed 

With such a variation of causes to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it being a relatively new diagnosis, only receiving its rightful place in 1980 by the APA (the American Psychiatric Assoc...

When I hear them, I’ve learned to say “Quiet. I interrupt this message and replace it with….” and then I do it, out loud if I have to, I replace the voice with what I should be hearing.

YOU DID THE BEST YOU COULD WITH WHERE YOU WERE AT IN THAT MOMENT.  Say it out loud, write it down, keep it in your coat pocket to remind yourself. Being traumatized, neglected, abused, hurt, misused, manipulated and everything else that happened, was NOT your fault. Y...