The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on Building the new ~ Socrates Sounds good, logical, the right thing to do. However, I learned on my journey that I first needed to survey the damage in my life. I needed to acknowledge my life was a…
I’ve worked on improving myself for years. I tried and failed many ways of learning to live. I recognized very early in my teens that there was something odd about me but I was always the way I was, I didn’t know where to start. In counseling, I started a focused concentrated healing. I learned…
I am working on a series of questions over on my other blog. Today I stumbled on what I could say is pet peeve I have. Accountability. I am accountable for my behavior. Here is the link to my other blog: http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2014/09/tell-me-one-thing-that-i-do-which-makes_26.html I am reiterating the same concept here. I finally decided that the thing…
Hope For The Broken Hearted The first step towards getting somewhere, is simply to decide that you are not going to stay where you are… then just move forward, one step, one day at a time…when you’re overwhelmed, I know that’s easier said than done, but do just one thing today to help yourself…do one…
To me, the first step in my healing process was to finally accept where I was in life. I tried denial and all it did was give me more time to bury myself deeper in muck and mire. Years ago, I moved to Tri-Cities, Washington, 3 cities, 3 rivers and 3 freeways. I kept a…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 