ANTs – Automatic Negative Thoughts – Can Ruin Your Picnic
Are ants trying to ruin your picnic? If you're human, it's quite likely that they are. Ants are pesky little critters that love picnics, and ANTs are pesky little (or big) thoughts that love our mind. No matter what kind…
Think Like a Business: Self-Optimize with Personal SEO
Self-optimize to live your life intentionally, creating your own concept of a quality life. Determining what makes a quality life and creating a path to get there is a process that in many ways is similar to what web developers…
Can Anxiety Have a Positive Side?
Is there a positive side of anxiety? Anxiety isn't something people often embrace as positive; indeed, people tend to go to great lengths to eliminate if from their lives. That said, very few things are either all good or all…
Mindfulness for Traumatic Brain Injury, Mental Health
Mindfulness for traumatic brain injury can be both extremely helpful and seemingly impossible. For a long time, mindfulness and traumatic brain injury didn't fit together for me at all. Over a decade my first brain injury (I've had three), I…
8 Ways to Stop Negativity from Ruining Your Day
Believe it or not, you can stop negativity. Does negativity sometimes ruin your day? Complaints, anger, discontent, and intolerance for differences of opinion are overwhelming. This negativity is omnipresent. It's on the news, on social media, and in our communities,…
Self-Compassion and You: A Guide to Turning Compassion Inward
I have a purpose in my life and in my writing: to share stories, information, and strategies so that we all may thrive despite problems and challenges and create our own version of a life worth living. I love meeting…
Thrive with TBI: See the World Through Rose-Colored Glasses
My first traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurred more than a decade ago. Since that time, I’ve worked to thrive, to live well in spite of my unique brain injury sequelae. I recently discovered a whole new way to thrive with…
It’s Never Too Late for the Brain to Heal from TBI
It's never too late for the brain to heal. I recently learned this lesson, and it's timely for Mental Health Awareness Month, and opportunities for growth and increasing our wellbeing are all around us. We simply need to know where…
Mental Health Awareness Month: 5 Things You Should Know
Mental Health Awareness Month, observed every May, places a spotlight on mental health and mental illness. The terms mental health and mental illness are broad terms, encompassing a lot (it can be argued that because these terms involve brain and body,…
Self-Care During Mental Health Awareness Month and Beyond
Mental Health Awareness Month is a great time for self-care and nurturing your own mental health and wellbeing. It's fitting that this important mental health month is in May. May is spring in full bloom. Buds unfurl to become leaves…