Category: Mental Health

What Is An Emotion?

People often get confused about what emotions are. They may take feelings too seriously, believing that they are instructions or inescapable facts. They may try to control their emotions by clinging to them or trying to push them away. But all these things just make…

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I Need to Turn My Life Around – Where to Start?

As a chaotic alcoholic, personality disorder sufferer, agoraphobic, anxiety-disordered depressive who was able to turn my life around, people often ask me what the best way to change and rebuild your life is! One of the reasons I studied multiple disciplines is that is not as…

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Why I Write About My Childhood Trauma

Guest Post by Zachary Phillips: Writer, Speaker, Coach & Mental Health Advocate – On why writing is so important for people who have suffered trauma. My Traumatic Childhood I grew up as the son of an addict, paranoid schizophrenic, chronic hoarder and drug dealer. At…

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Are You Addicted to Drama?

When coaching alcoholics and drug addicts, I used to be amazed that people could so easily relapse and fall back into their addictions through sheer boredom –  until I came across another addiction that some people have. Many addicts have chaotic and dramatic lifestyles and…

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