Health - Mental

When we take care of ourselves, we can better show up for the people we love.

Are you just a list of symptoms on some diagnostic questionnaire, or does your therapist take the time to find out why you do what you do and think what you think? Therapy is a collaborative process—a mutual exploration of your self.

To let go, when you know you have to is like choosing both grief and hope. Hope that you have control over your life, hope that there is something that is more in alignment for you out there. But you are giving up the possibility of the known joy. There must have been something you are letting go of that is meaningful and beautiful. Letting go, for

Grief doesn't go away. It exists on a different plain from life and intersects less and less with life as time goes on. The last place it visits you is in dreams. By this time, you don’t want it to go away.

If as a child you were unable to internalize a deep sense of love and security, you might now carry a persistent feeling of being not good enough – that you are somehow disgusting, ugly, stupid or flawed. This may involve internal thoughts such as, ‘Nothing I do is good enough’, ‘There is something fundamentally wrong with me’, or even ‘I am bad

10 Signs you're doing well in life

You have a roof over your head.

You ate today.

You have a good heart.

You wish good for others.

You have clean water.

Someone cares for you.

You strive to be better.

You have clean clothes.

You have a dream.

You're breathing.