National Dog Day: How Dogs Benefit Mental Health Today is national dog day. I was at a dog rescue event last weekend with Crafts 4 Rescues and heard a lot of commentary about how dogs are benefiting their owners mental health. Today I decided to dig around the internet and find some more information on the topic. As you know if you’ve been around my blog long, I want to bring awareness to mental health issues and break the stigma that a mental health diagnosis holds for so many. “But there is real science behind the benefits of owning pets.…
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I was contacted by www.CoriolisCompany.com asking if I would like to read and review On Learning To Heal: What Medicine Doesn’t Tell you by Ed Cohen They said “At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease—a condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for was periods of remission. Unfortunately, they never mentioned healing as a possibility. In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science…
Why Your Illness Doesn’t Define You Guest Post Written by Elizabeth Jett a PR Specialist at the Charcot-Marie-Tooth-Association Living a fulfilling and productive life is possible despite illness, disability, or disease. Let’s face it—no matter our socioeconomic standing, life has its fair share of hurdles. It’s hard to deal with a chronic illness without hearing judgmental remarks and negative attitudes from family members and friends. Disease, disability, and condition have crept into our modern world, but we needn’t let…
Five minute Friday is a linkup where we are given a writing prompt. We spend 5 minutes with the timer on and free write. As you can see I didn’t get very far with writing and the particular link up has ended. It has been several months since I’ve really completed a blog post. I just sent out my first newsletter in months. Life and depression kept me from being able to follow my passion which is writing. My other passion is reading. Of course my first passion is my family and friends. I have had a few…
I am linking up with Five Minute Friday. This weeks prompt is “Ignore”. We are given a prompt and told to free write for 5 minutes. Here goes Ignore Don’t ignore the signs Danger Sharp Curve Ahead As the car creeps along Hearing its moans and whines The car is our body Our body is a temple of God Dont ignore the signs Sometimes I feel seen as Odd I want to scream and shout Don’t ignore the signs When your body speaks Listen to its words I could waste time complaining And voicing my own whines I want to…
I am trying hard to have a positive mindset and not let the negative thoughts control my life like they did in my past. I am working on improving my mental health and I feel the amount of negative thinking in my brain plays a part. Disclaimer: This is NOT to say that depression or mental health issues are just from our being negative or needing to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Mental Health issues are real and should be addressed. Some folks may not need prescribed medicine. However there are those that no matter what they try there…
Giving Without Expectations to Recieve I am linking up with Five Minute Friday where we get a word prompt, set a timer for five minutes and share. FMF Writing Prompt :: Receive – Five Minute Friday It is important to our heart and mind that we give without expectations of recieving something in return. God calls us to love one another and care for one another. He does not say give so that you will recieve. However in all the giving it is important to take an assessment of your own energy tank and oxygen level. On an…