Stay Aware of Holiday Alcohol Abuse

While the holiday season is a time of joy for many, it can also be a dangerous time, especially if you tend to drink too much or are around others who may have alcohol abuse issues.

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What really is causing your low energy and fatigue?

The origins of low-energy can be physical, emotional or spiritual. I won’t deal with the spiritual here, except to say the phrase that comes to mind is “dark night of the soul.”

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Marriage Advice: Maintaining Peace in your Marriage

When you bond with and commit to a long-term marriage relationship with another human being, you usually start from a place of peace. Both of you are accepted and loved and are interested in the interests, activities and passions of the other. There may be a lot going on, but your relationship is one of peace…20 years…Are you holding back from each other to keep the peace? These are signs, not of peace, but of a truce, a cease-fire…the truce is not a happy place. It may be temporarily practical, but seldom more than an uneasy peace.

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Good Mental Health May Not Be What You Think

Most people seem to have some knowledge of what mental illness is, but there is a great deal of confusion about what constitutes mental health. However, when I Googled “mental health,” I was hit with a barrage of gobbledygook. I won’t repeat any of that here.

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To Celebrate your Life is to Expand your Life

Why celebrate?

If you fulfill an intention, if you achieve something, and then you celebrate what you have accomplished, you are acknowledging to your center and to the universe what you have done. This tends to anchor it as real.

Too often, when we achieve something, we forget, or neglect out of false modesty to celebrate and anchor what we have done. Instead, with no change in pace, we just whimper, “Next!” We are left with the feeling we haven’t got anything done.

Categories: Happiness, Self Growth  |  Tags: celebrate life, celebrating life, fulfillment, Happiness, personal growth  |  3 comments