Mental Health Blog
This mental health blog reflects many years of life in my neck of the woods. You’ll find things I’ve learned and gone through, thoughts and tools that have helped me along my midlife journey.
You will find a variety of topics on these pages. Many are linked to my therapy specialities. Lot’s are just about life, plain old life and living it at midlife.
Rest assured I have not invented the wheel here on these mental health blog pages. I’ve collected stuff along the way of my life’s journey. That includes information, coping tool ideas, practical notions and tidbits of wisdom which you will find in this library of blog posts.
Writing is a tool in itself. Especially when it comes from your heart. It helps solidify knowledge, and recognize emotions too. Also, it helps to validate experiences and is a release as well. Writing has been an important coping tool for me. It is one you just might want to give a try.
My blog I offer to you straight from my heart in hopes you can relate and know you are not alone. I hope you find some encouraging words, coping tools and ideas to tuck away and use as you navigate through your midlife journey!
Jude
A Golden Opportunity
There is a nasty stomach/intestinal flu bug going around and lucky me I caught it this week. It’s just my turn. I haven’t been this kind of sick since I was a kid with stuff …
Our Lives Are Teaching Us!
That saying is really so very true. My life is constantly teaching me things. Most importantly I keep learning about me. This week brought some challenges my way that allowed me to see a pattern …
Being Mortal
I want to encourage you to pick up a copy and read this book: “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande This book is important to those of us getting older—every one of …
Mom’s Day
One of my favorite memories of Mother’s Day is a picnic we had when I was a teen with my grand parents, a great Aunt and a family we were close to. We went for …
April Showers…
Oh yippee, May flowers are on the way! I’ve so enjoyed having my fingers back in my flower bed dirt once again. Everything is greening up beautifully even the trees are budding out. My mind …
Life…
Life seems to keep providing me with opportunity to pause and remember to appreciate all that I have and those in my life. It’s good that it does too. It’s too easy for me to …
Missing Family…
Grieving losses... Grief unfolds...my great Aunt died this week. She was married to my Mom’s mother’s brother. I recall special time visiting with her family when I was young. I found myself feeling sad that …
April Fools…
April is fooling with me today. Mother Nature has dropped a cold white trick on me and my poor spring flowers. I only hope they can thaw out and bounce back for me to enjoy …
H2O
I’ve had another appendage for years now. Currently, its color is blue. It’s had other colors in the past. It’s my water bottle and it goes with me just about everywhere. In fact on the …
Spring Cleaning
I’ve started my annual spring cleaning projects around the house. Our bedroom and closet have been thoroughly dusted and vacuumed behind, in and under. My aching back told me so too. I’m not as young …
Everything is…As it should be…
Acceptance is a key I learned a wonderfully helpful meditation tool many years ago. As you sit with focus on your breath when you inhale say to yourself: “Everything is”; and when you exhale …
The Challenge of Change
It’s amazing to me what information you can find on the internet for free in the matter of seconds. Just a bit ago I looked up a knitting stitch I was having trouble understanding from …
