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Holiday Gift Guide for Deaf People - It's Not What You Think
Know a Deaf or Hard of Hearing person and would like to get them a holiday gift? Sometimes our best intentions have the wrong impact. You give something that a Deaf or Hard of Hearing person will either find useless, insulting, or repetitive.
By Tracy Stine4 years ago in Psyche
10 Things I Won’t Forget After Listening to People’s Problems for 7 Years
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” — Ernest Hemingway I will never forget the lessons other people taught me by confiding to me their problems. For the past seven years, I’ve had a section at my blog titled “Dear Joyce” where I offered to listen to people who needed someone to talk to. While I have not officially been a life coach, I had that precious opportunity to know people better, deeper. By entrusting me with their concerns, I have gained much more than I have ever thought I would.
By Jocleyn Soriano4 years ago in Psyche
The Pain in My Heart Pushed Me to Start the Speaking Bipolar Site
“And he's bipolar. You know what that means.” My boss was 10 minutes into his gossip fest. Today's victim was one of his oldest friends. I heard a litany of all the things his friend had done wrong, and all the poor choices he had made. My boss boasted of their 20-year friendship, but I couldn't help but wonder if it really was a friendship.
By Scott Ninneman4 years ago in Psyche
I Discovered My True Friends When I Went a Little Cray
Since my series of brain injuries, I’ve thought a lot about friendship. I’ve learned who my friends are, and who they’re not. And I treasure relationships more than ever. I appreciate the love of my friends, but I’ve also had to distance myself from friendships that are emotionally or mentally unhealthy.
By Catherine Kenwell4 years ago in Psyche
Tapping Into the Core of Me
Much to my surprise nearly a decade ago I participated in my first big obstacle race. The first of two Tough Mudders (and I did a Spartan for good measure). It wasn’t something I ever thought of myself doing back then, until a friend decided she wanted to lose weight and her goal was to complete a TM. She dragged a group of us into her goal and I found myself committing to it, no matter how ridiculous it sounded. In the end she didn’t do the race but the rest of us did. Somewhat unexpectedly I found I loved it. When the event came back the following year, I was happy to jump right back into that starting pit.
By KC4 years ago in Psyche
Everything’s Going Well in Your Life but You Feel Miserable. Here’s Why
Yesterday was objectively a good day. I woke up naturally at 7:30 am, read with my first cup of coffee of the day, meditated, journaled, wrote just over 1,000 words for my book, wrote a post for Medium, and found out that one of my articles was getting more views than usual. Then I had lunch, took a short nap, tackled some freelance deadlines, and celebrated the end of my day reading in the grass while sipping a ginger beer in the Buttes-Chaumont park. Finally, my girlfriend came home from work and we spent the evening together.
By Auriane Alix4 years ago in Psyche
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
I was in a mall bookstore in Delhi many years ago when the Green Day song Boulevard of Broken Dreams started playing on the radio. I flinched. I felt the familiar flutter in my gut and before I knew it, my heart was racing and my feet felt like lead.
By Natasha Khullar Relph4 years ago in Psyche
Stop Waiting for Everything to go Back to Normal
You’ve probably heard it before, or maybe you’re the one saying it. “When will things go back to normal?” Everyone wants to go back to a time before the pandemic, when they were comfortable in the life they were living, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
By Nicholas McKenna4 years ago in Psyche
50 Shades of Self-Awareness.
Hello. I am so glad you are here. I have something POTENT to say about healing from trauma. What I have discovered is that we are all just onions and our traumas are buried deep beneath the layers of who we 'think' we are.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
Recovery Is Possible
What is our "Real Self?" I mean, aren't we all putting on a facade for everyone? When we meet people, don't we put our best foot forward? Don't we want to make a great impression when we try to get a job? Authentic Self seems elusive, or so I thought. Oh, that's just "Dime Store Psychology." You see, I had one of those jobs that I had to put on many faces.
By Jeff Johnson4 years ago in Psyche
Beating Depression's Beaten Path
Human beings are creatures of habit. We have a subconscious bias toward doing everyday things in certain ways that feel comfortable to us. I put my left sock on before the right one, but I always put my right shoe on before the left. I brush my teeth in a certain pattern; I shave my face from left to right. Whatever the task is, I definitely don’t remember choosing the particular way in which I complete it. As a child I learned the basics but as I grew older I simply found a way of doing them that just felt comfortable to me. If not by the lack of discomfort, but by the reinforcement achieved by repetition. Either way, our brains employ a flavor of the ‘path of least resistance’ strategy with these simple tasks; that being said, would it not make sense that our brains also employ this strategy with other functions buried even deeper in our subconscious?
By Mac4 years ago in Psyche
My Mom's Tale
Before I begin, I would like to clarify that this article is not to bash my Mom whatsoever. It is in fact quite the opposite. My argument is that people who use and abuse substances deserve compassion, not condemnation or judgment. It is something that took 17 years for me to understand. After 17 years, I'm finally on my Mom's side instead of fighting against her.
By kasey gresham4 years ago in Psyche