When you’re feeling overwhelmed, it can be easy to let your dreams die.  It can be easy to give up on them, and begin to believe that they are impossible. Dreams never really die, though… when you give up on them, they don’t go away.  Instead, they hang around in the background constantly sapping your mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical energy. That drain doesn’t heal with time, either… it gets worse.  The longer that [...]

Sometimes, in life, something brings to your attention that you’ve gotten so far down a path that you don’t want to be that there is really no way back.  You just stop, look around you, and realize that you are unhappy with where you are and who you have become. The natural reaction for many, probably even most, people is to give up and start sliding into despair, thinking there is nothing they can do [...]

Have you been feeling lost lately?  Or maybe not quite lost, but adrift… not really knowing where you’re going, or even which direction?  You can even feel this way if you know where you want to go, but are at a loss for what to do right now to get there. It’s easy to start feeling lost or adrift when you feel like you are being pulled in too many directions at the same time.  [...]

When is the last time that you had real time off?  Real time off doesn't just mean time when you don't go into the office… it means time when you feel no rush to do anything, time when you feel like you can take time, and not in specified amounts, to do what you want to do. Real time off means you don't have to go to the grocery store, or buy your kids clothes, [...]

When someone does something to you to intentionally hurt you, it can make it much worse than if they were to do the same thing accidentally.  When speaking of mental wounds, part of the reason for this is that you feel like there must have been something about you that made them want to hurt you. That is almost never, quite possibly actually never, the real cause.  The real cause is nearly certain to be [...]

A good relationship is, without a doubt, one of the most wonderful things to have in your life.  It can contribute more to your happiness than nearly anything else, with only following your dreams possibly bringing more. Unfortunately, not all relationships are good relationships, and even good relationships can end when something traumatic causes one of the people to change beyond what the relationship can handle.  And, sad to say, some good relationships end when [...]

As we go along through life, we will accumulate injuries, both mental and physical.  Some are minor, like stubbing your toe, and they heal quickly and easily, without any need for action on our part.  Others are major wounds, sometimes even requiring the assistance of others. When it comes to physical wounds, the degree of attention needed is usually obvious, though even small injuries can get infected and cause serious problems if left untended.  The [...]

Only one thing is certain in life… we will all die.  Barring unfortunate accidents, chances are that you will see at least one person you love die before your own time comes. The death of someone you love can be completely devastating.  It has caused more than one person to completely fall apart, and even leads to suicides from time to time. On a smaller scale, it can lead you to become passive, to give [...]

As we go through life, we pick up mental and emotional wounds.  Some of them are big, and some are small, but everyone has received some at one point or another. The nasty thing about emotional and mental wounds  (consolidated to just emotional for this article) is that we have a natural tendency to keep them from healing completely.  This leaves a constant drain on our mental and emotional resources. It's somewhat like an improperly [...]

The modern life is full of stress.  It can build up, day after day, until it reaches an overwhelming level.  You may even feel like you're on the edge of breaking. It may be stress from financial difficulties, from your relationship, your kids, your work… there are hundreds of possible sources of stress throughout our lives.  The biggest source of stress of all, though, is ourselves. How, you might ask, are we the biggest source [...]