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My Doctor Says I’m Prediabetic
I’m only able to work on my prediabetes because I finally cleared old pain.
I Hate Myself: Depression and Low Self-Esteem Aren’t Always Linked
You’d think getting rid of one would take care of the other, but no.
My Middle Age Morale Problem
My life isn’t worse than it used to be; the problem is that I don’t have as much hope.
Losing Weight Isn’t about Losing Weight
Complaining about my weight gets understanding, but the real problem is self-esteem.
Birth…Pain…Death
Talked to my therapist last night and reviewed that people's main response to danger is to go into a state of shock because shock reduces pain. Whether it's physical pain or the emotional pain of being yelled at by a boss or fearing an important relationship is about...
You Might Be Clinically Depressed If
You might be clinically depressed if: you're back on cigarettes or junk food or alcohol or shopping or whatever your addiction is that you've been trying to kick for decades. you can't concentrate on work for more than a few minutes at a time. the long minutes you...
El amanecer
Shrieking Dawn was a nutjob And even though she's dead is a nutjob still. But even if I can't get her gibbering chorus out of my head, I can at least stop dancing to it.
The United States of Excess
Last night at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs talk I heard one of the most engaging, yet disturbing, speakers I've ever seen. Robert Paarlberg, author of The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism, talked about what he...
Pants*
Previous post on weight & health: Cutting carbs like my life depends on it *In the United States, pants refers to the garment others call trousers. (A post in which I do nothing but whine.) I haven't allowed myself to buy pants in quite a...
In the Grip
This is it right here: the hard part of change. It feels hard enough to get up every morning to follow Joe Dispenza's guided meditation and do the work of digging in to my unwanted emotions, but this is the real ordeal. After months of struggling to get some momentum...
I Hate Myself No More
A month ago, I began reading Dr. Joe Dispenza’s Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One. It explains how our thoughts and feelings affect our physical and material state. He basically says that with focus and meditation you can...
SAMe for Depression
I don't want to sound like I've joyously found a wonder pill, but my chiropractor put me on S-Adenosyl methionine (SAMe) a few weeks ago and it's greatly changed my mood. Have you heard of SAMe (pronounced "sammy")? From the Web MD website: SAMe is a...
Fatter But Wiser
Being unmarried does NOT make you inferior. Yeah, I had to learn this. Previous post on weight & health: PLoosening the grip of food over me In April 2007 I left my spinster pad and moved in with my boyfriend, who would later become my husband. I...
Depression, Part 6,000
It takes me down. It takes me right down and I have no idea what the trigger was. What's the reason for this bleak mood? Maybe there isn't any. I've fallen and I can't get up. Even sugar won't be my friend these days. It's stopped helping, leaving me locked in an...