Don’t Take Vacation From Your Good Habits

A lot of people share a similar experience when it comes to developing good habits such as eating healthy and exercising regularly. The scenario involves being careful to maintain a healthy and productive schedule during the week and then to take breaks from the good habits on the weekend. This can develop because we feel…

How to Overcome Stress and Anxiety Naturally

Stress and anxiety are acknowledged parts of everyday life for most people due to lifestyle changes and the daily challenges that everyone faces. Excessive stress and anxiety can lead to health issues, however, so there are many medications available to help people manage their stress and anxiety. There are also many natural methods that can…

Recalculating: You Can Re-Mind Yourself

Laura Berman Fortgang is a bestselling author, speaker, TV personality, corporate spokesperson, and Interfaith minister. She has also struggled with depression for most of her adult life. She writes that most people seem surprised when they learn of her depression, citing how positive and energetic she presents herself. Fortgang writes that depression doesn’t rule her…

Do You Play the Blame Game in Life?

According to Mike Bundrant, the director of the iNLP Center, the blame game is where a person blames other people and his or her environment for the the things wrong with life. Playing the blame game means being inactive in life and allowing the quality of life to depend on what everyone and everything else…

The Inner Voice that Drives Suicide

Dr. Robert Firestone made the link between suicide and a destructive inner voice in 1986 after interviewing a woman who had recently attempted suicide. She described how the voice had goaded and instructed her through the suicide attempt. Since then, the inner voice has been identified in suicide attempts across the world. Robert Firestone and…

All about Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is an illness that occurs in approximately one percent of the population. In America, nearly three million people are diagnosed with it. About one third of those diagnosed will attempt to commit suicide and 10% will kill themselves within twenty years of diagnosis. Very few of them will reveal their intentions to anyone. Schizophrenia…

Think Your Way to Happiness

The capacity of human beings for complex and inventive thinking has given us great advantages as a species throughout history, but we may not be prepared for some of the consequences of that complexity and invention, which can lead to depression. Albert Ellis, a rational emotive behavior therapist, thinks the source of much conflict and…