Self-Development

2018-30-08-18-31-42

Natural Options For Mental Health

When I was diagnosed with depression seven years ago, I knew I didn’t want to get prescribed medication and I wanted to look into natural options. I didn’t want to be on antidepressants even though I did try to get her to prescribe me Xanax instead. She saw right through my addict manipulations, however, and declined referral. At the time, I was convinced that the only reason I was depressed was because I was so heavily into drugs and alcohol, and for all of the things that have happened in my life because of that. I had taken enough court-mandated drug and alcohol classes to understand my addiction and why it is there. When I realized the depression wasn’t going anywhere after I got sober, and the anxiety was building immensely, I knew I had to do something about it fast. I am still in a place where I don’t want to rely on pharmaceuticals. Once you’re on them, it’s a life-long dedication that I’m just not ready for yet.…

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2018-29-08-09-09-15

Mental Health: Let’s Talk About This

Mental illness is something so common but rarely talked about. I have always been interested in the way the mind works and found the study of psychology intriguing. The mind is an intricate and unpredictable machine that isn’t even fully understood yet by modern day science. So many questions are still unanswered. I have just recently begun to dive into my own mind, and try to figure out what is going on in there. Since getting sober, my mind has been “acting out” if you will. I was diagnosed with depression 7 years ago, but I was drinking so heavily that there was no way I was going to figure it out or deal with it. Alcohol just fuels the depression. It did, however, numb the anxiety. Since I’ve stopped drinking, my anxiety has skyrocketed. (Disclaimer: Hopefully anyone reading this, trying to get sober, is not deterred by this statement. Everyone is different, and it definitely does not mean that you will have anxiety if you were to sober up.…

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Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Trigger Warning: Drug Use. Would you believe me if I told you that the only thing holding you back from living the life of your dreams, was your mind? I’ve spent the majority of my life, starting at a very young age, feeling as if I didn’t belong. It was always hard for me to “fit in” at school and I’ve always felt like I was “different” from everyone else. I was also the fat kid my entire life, and that left me to a lot of isolation as well as being an only child. People who have never been “big” will not understand the feeling of being either the invisible person or the target of bullying. I learned to entertain myself and be okay with being alone. Around the age of 12, my parents and I moved to a new town. Shortly after moving there I started to become the person I would be for the next decade. I started sneaking cigarette butts from the ashtrays at home, and…

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2018-24-08-09-07-39

Using Journals to Manifest Your Dream Life

Do you journal? I have always been a huge fan of journaling. I have had a journal since I was able to write and have consistently written in them on a regular basis. Sometimes, it’s every day, sometimes it’s once a month; It all goes with how I’m feeling. What we write also puts out an energy into the universe. All of our thoughts, words, and actions give off an energy. With the law of attraction always working, whether the energy is good or bad, it will return to you. Be careful with, not only, the words you say out loud, but your thoughts and feelings towards something. This goes for what you write as well. Write out of love and out of compassion. Write with intention and believe what you’re writing, and you can use journaling to manifest your desires. I have three journals currently in process. The first one is my personal journal, or diary if you will, and I use a standard lined journal with a faux…

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2018-21-08-08-39-14

Simplify – Getting Back To Basics

Minimalism. Until recently, I didn’t understand what that word meant. I knew it meant you didn’t have a lot of stuff, but I didn’t really understand the importance of it. Until now. I have been engulfed in this journey of self-development and self-discovery when I stumbled across the documentary Minimalism on Netflix. I was really into watching documentaries about health and veganism at the time and this came up on my recommended videos. At the time I was thinking, “I don’t know what this has to do with health, but I’ll give it a go.” I was instantly intrigued. I knew I was going to have to minimize in order to move across the country in my little Saturn Ion, but I was doing that because I had to. It wasn’t because I had fully understood that having less physical things, makes more room for the intangible things. I have only begun to scratch the surface on my minimalist journey. When I moved to Oregon from Illinois, I only brought…

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