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How Nutrition Can Make or Break Early Addiction Recovery

If you’ve ever attended any sort of 12-step meeting or recovery-oriented support group, chances are you’ve received tons of advice about addiction recovery, especially during the early stages of recovery. However, I personally noticed that a lot of this advice centers around “cutting out the bad” and doesn’t always factor in the positive changes that [...]

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How the Addiction Recovery World is Like the Catholic Church

I am a Catholic school refugee. While I may have been a believer back in Jesuit high school, I am now agnostic, and part of the reason is because I have realized that the Catholic Church is so incredibly backward, slow-paced and even harmful to people like me who are different, gay or questioning of [...]

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The Voice Within the Mind of Someone With an Addiction

Addiction, didn’t know it was a problem until I couldn’t stop. Addiction, relief entwined with pain that leaves my body in shock. Addiction, the reality I know must be faced, but feel too scared so ignore. Addiction, something I want to escape but the experience of which I enjoy. Addiction, bathes me in shame and guilt yet [...]

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What can I do if I am ugly? People are so rude and disrespectful. I hate my face.

I have had so many men call me ugly. I used to go online and pretend to be other girls and when I showed them real pictures of me. I got so many nasty mean remarks thrown to me about my appearance. I know I am not the prettiest girl but at least be nice because I am a GIRL not a fucking boy. I hate the way I look. I can’t even be around an attractive female without being insecure because when a pretty girl walks into the room, they probably would get complimented right away and I never do. I am always by myself and plan on being by myself for the rest of my life. Attractive people piss me off. I don’t like being around them. I was never considered one. When I was little my parents said I looked like a doll and I had so many people say stuff about the way I look saying I am ugly mostly men. Sorry I will never look like Jennifer Lopez and some people probably really wouldn’t understand why I am this way. I really hate my appearance. Maybe if I lost all the weight I wanted and my skin cleared up forever, I would feel a little better about myself but otherwise no. Sometimes I see attractive people in public and just want to punch them. That is not gonna change.
#CheckInWithMe #MentalHealth #Addiction #Disability #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #BipolarDisorder #ADHD #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #Schizophrenia #Psychosis #Selfharm #SuicidalThoughts #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Autism #AnorexiaNervosa #AutismSpectrumDisorder #ChronicIllness #ChronicIllness #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #Diabetes

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Burnout is real and you're not alone if you're going through it! Many of us feel burned out without even realizing it. I hope this post helps encourage you today.
#Addiction #Agoraphobia #Anxiety #Autism #ADHD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDepression #MentalHealth #PTSD #Schizophrenia #Lupus #Cancer #POTS #SjogrensSyndrome #Depression

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If your mind feels foggy or overwhelmed at work or school, this takes ten seconds and actually helps.

When your mind feels stressed or foggy, it is often because you never truly pause. Staring at screens for hours trains your nervous system to stay tense, even when you think you are pushing through productively. This simple exercise helps reset that pattern by giving your eyes and mind a moment of openness. Every ten minutes, take ten seconds to look at something about ten feet away, not your phone but the space around you. Looking up instead of down creates distance from the task and reminds your mind that what you are working on is not as overwhelming as it feels. Small pauses like this can bring more calm, clarity, and focus than forcing yourself to keep going. Have you ever noticed how much better you feel after even a brief break?

If you want to learn more about this, check out my video by clicking on one of the links below.

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#MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #dissociativedisorders #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ADHD #Fibromyalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #PTSD #Cancer #RareDisease #Disability #Autism #Diabetes #EatingDisorders #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RheumatoidArthritis #Suicide #MightyTogether

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This moment

Most people are never fully here. Their mind is already chasing the next moment, the next solution, the next version of life where everything finally feels okay.

There is a quiet belief running in the background that says, “This moment isn’t important. The next one will be better.”

But life does not happen later. It only ever happens now.

When you are constantly waiting for the next moment, you miss your own life while it is unfolding. You miss small moments of calm. You miss relief that is already available. You miss the fact that right now is survivable, even if it is imperfect.

Healing does not happen in the future. Peace does not live in tomorrow. They are practiced in this moment, exactly as it is.

The present moment is not standing in your way. It is the only place your life actually exists.

How often do you catch yourself waiting for life to start later. What would change if you let this moment be enough, just for a minute?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

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~ Thanks to all. Thanks for all. ~

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I am not finding the type of mental help that I want that can help change my life

There was one time I was hospitalized in a residential treatment center in Florida and one of the female mental health techs that I kept talking to and opening up to told me to make a wish and it will come true. I feel like the wish is coming true but it wasn’t even like a big wish. I wish I made a better wish. I wish that I can have 100 more wishes come true because honestly right now my life sucks and I am barely living. I hope I can get my 100 wishes one day soon. It would mean the world to me if I do.
#CheckInWithMe #MentalHealth #MightyTogether #Disability #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #Schizophrenia #Anxiety #ADHD #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Psychosis #BipolarDisorder #Selfharm #Suicide #SuicidalThoughts #Depression #BipolarDepression #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #BingeEatingDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #AnorexiaNervosa #Autism #AutismSpectrumDisorder #Cancer #ChronicIllness #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #PTSD #EatingDisorders #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #TraumaticBrainInjury #Trauma

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Weekend Thoughts (and squeezing in thankful Thursday if you want to join in!)

This is a beautiful thought to take into the weekend.
And since I missed you yesterday, feel free to comment a few things you're thankful for today!
#PTSD #MentalHealth #BipolarDepression #BipolarDepression #Addiction #AnorexiaNervosa #Agoraphobia #Anxiety #AutismSpectrum #ADHD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #Lupus #CeliacDisease #Grief #SjogrensSyndrome #Migraine #POTS #Schizophrenia

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HI God's n Goddesses

THERE are hardships at Christmas, I'm thankful that I have those which are solvable, there's always house work for me, and caregiving, yes the 9 days following American Thanksgiving were Hell for me, but I got through it by giving others joy, and in return receiving 2 days of Christmas Carol's, always keep your family close, they are Your true Calling, I wish you all the means to Feed and Nurture them, and the Health, things in the world Spite us sometimes but that is not all there is, Hope for Better Days, in the End ONLY KINDNESS MATTERS, thanks for Friends, a Very Valuable thing, A Shoulder amidst Strife n Spite, May all of you have one, Keep Clean Sheltered Nourished Hopeful, in Good Mental and Physical Health or Recovery, in Frienship, in a Family even if it's a Friend Group, Kind to Self and Each Other, Faithful, Dreaming and With Hope, Thank you, and Gratitude is not always Church it's Service to Others, n Preserving a Life with a kind Word, try to Believe in Humanity amid the hardships or war overseas, Loss of Loved Ones and Addiction and Mental Health Recovery and even poor Economic Status, and to those in Prisons n Hospitals I kinda know it's hard, I wish you Love, though I am sometimes destroyed my issues are so small. PEACE

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Mental Health Tool

One of the most underrated mental health tools is writing things down. Not to solve everything. Not to be perfect. Just to get things out of your head and onto paper. That’s why therapy works. That’s why venting works. Expression creates relief. If you can’t talk to someone right now, write. Journal. Write messy thoughts. Write poetry. Write without editing yourself. The more you do it, the more you’ll understand your emotions instead of fighting them. And when you understand where they come from, you can finally start changing them.

Have you ever tried writing things out when your mind feels heavy?

If you want to learn more about this, check out my video by clicking on one of the links below.

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How Nutrition Can Make or Break Early Addiction Recovery

How the Addiction Recovery World is Like the Catholic Church

The Voice Within the Mind of Someone With an Addiction

What can I do if I am ugly? People are so rude and disrespectful. I hate my face.

Monday Motivation

If your mind feels foggy or overwhelmed at work or school, this takes ten seconds and actually helps.

This moment

I am not finding the type of mental help that I want that can help change my life

Weekend Thoughts (and squeezing in thankful Thursday if you want to join in!)

HI God's n Goddesses

Mental Health Tool

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