Today’s Inspiration

Just realised I did a double post there, so here’s your inspiration for today 🙂

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Today’s Inspiration

Phenomenal Friday-You’re Not Crazy, Depression Is Real!

 

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I smiled not because I was happy, I smiled because it was expected  ~Etta D. Richards

This is the first of my two-part series of speaking about my own partnership with mental health. I don’t call it a battle because battles are won or lost. With partnerships, you come to a mutual agreement.

Growing up in a society where mental health is a HUGE taboo wasn’t easy. You’re either possed by the devil or your drugs (Weed, Cocaine) was laced. I remember seeing my uncle wrestle with his demons and everyone calling him crazy, I remember how lucid he was whenever he came back from the “crazy hill” that’s what they called the rehabilitation centre back home. We kids never knew what that place really was, we only know if you went “crazy” you went there to get better. Years later when my uncle resisted going to the “crazy hill” I tried to talk him down, tried to convince him it was the best place for him because it made him better. He looked at me with wild eyes and he said that place didn’t make him better, then he explained to me what really went on there. The solitude, the blue pills that made you wet yourself even when you didn’t want to, the white pills that made your mind so quiet you forget your own name. The place where the reward for good behaviour was an extra roll on your dinner plate and the reward for non-compliance was a padded cell with a gift of a jacket with buckles and belts.

Today’s Inspiration

Today’s Inspiration

Do What You Can To Make Grace Happen!

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Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honour your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. ~Bradley Whitford

Phenomenal Friday-A Day In The Life Of A Fruitful Soul!

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.       ~Helen Keller

Everyone’s reality may be different, however, navigating reality can be tricky, at times even a bit overwhelming. It’s knowing when to detach from certain situations, people or things that we can totally navigate through all the daily noise which can sometimes make our reality overwhelmingly. At that point, we can gradually pull ourselves from the negative state of turmoil and navigate more easily through our reality.