Ikigai: Follow Your Bliss the Japanese Way

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Want To Come Alive? Ikigai Means To Follow Your Bliss What does it mean to follow your bliss? Ikigai is the Japanese way to find meaning in your life. Joseph Campbell, who was my professor in college, used to tell us to follow your bliss. The whole idea was lost on me all those years […]

What To Say When Someone’s Upset

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Do You Wonder What To Say When Someone’s Upset What to say when someone’s upset is not what you think, and your kindness may not be appreciated. Have you ever offered help when someone’s upset and irritated them? What is help anyway? I admit that I don’t want people to tell me what to think […]

4 Ways To Cope With Someone Else’s Anxiety

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Someone Else’s Anxiety Can Affect Your Life: Tips To Cope Do you live with someone else’s anxiety  thataffects your life so much you feel you might have the disorder, too? Well, emotional conditions are contagious. If you live with someone who’s afraid of travel, or being hungry, or other people, you will begin to have […]

22 Positive Affirmations To Boost Self-Esteem

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Positive Affirmations Are A Natural Way To Boost Mood And Self Esteem You may think positive affirmations are silly, but they are not. Positive affirmations can change the way you think, obviously; but they can also change the course of your life. You’ve heard of the law of attraction, right?  It means you get what […]

4 Top Hacks To Be Happy

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4 Hacks To Be Happy Anywhere Anytime Hacks to be happy are what we all need right now. Did you know there are ways to get and stay happy, no matter what’s happening in your life? Really. Even dealing with early recovery, ongoing recovery, job instability, political instability, and anything else that’s scary in the […]

Myths About Addiction Debunked

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Myths About Addiction The Stigma Must End Myths about addiction include the fact that even the names for the disease have changed. You may not even know what you have when your diagnosis is OUD. It’s Opioid Use Disorder. But it’s still addiction. The tragic fact is that in America addiction is like having Covid […]