Discover the various ways you might be abandoning yourself that are causing depression, and how loving yourself heals depression. . . . → Read More: Loving Yourself Heals Depression
 
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 Comments are closed  Relationships  Depression, emotional healing, Inner Bonding, love yourself, loving adult, self worth, spiritual guidance, wounded self Do you sometimes feel stuck with hurt and you don’t know how to get beyond it? Discover what to do with hurt. . . . → Read More: “How Do I Get Over Feeling Hurt?” Comments are closed Relationships Depression, emotional healing, loneliness, love, love yourself, loving adult, Margaret Paul, personal growth, self-love Anxiety and depression hold within them much important information. When you feel anxious or depressed, do you try to get rid of these feelings, or do you learn from them? Getting rid of anxiety and depression is big business – especially for the pharmaceutical companies. Drug sales for anti-anxiety meds and antidepressants are huge. This is very sad to me, because, while there are circumstances where these meds are medically called for, much of the time they are prescribed in an effort to simply get rid of our painful feelings. The problem with this is that it leaves us without the roadmap we need to navigate life in a loving, meaningful and joyful way. Anxiety and depression have major information for us. Let’s compare these feelings to the pain you would feel if you grabbed a hot pan with your bare hand or cut your finger slicing your veggies. Continue reading The Gifts Within Anxiety and Depression       Do you fear feeling happy because of the pain that might follow? I’m certain that if someone asked you if you want to be happy, you would say “Yes, of course!” Yet research indicates that many people have a fear of happiness. Anna North, in an article entitled “Beware of Joy”, states that, “Fear of happiness is that creeping feeling that you shouldn’t get too comfortable, because something bad is bound to happen.” I wouldn’t call this a fear of happiness. I would call it a fear of pain. It’s not the happiness that people want to avoid, but the pain that they fear will follow it. The article goes on to state that, “At Scientific American, Tori Rodriguez looks at the downsides of fear of happiness: Continue reading Do You Fear Happiness? Comments are closed Self Improvement & Personal Growth compassion, Depression, fear of happiness, fear of loss, fear of pain, happiness, heartbreak, Inner Bonding, kindness, love, Margaret Paul Discover when compromise is healthy and when it’s self-abandoning. Compromise! What does this word conjure up for you? Is it is a positive or negative word for you? Does it bring up a sense of loving resolution, or a sense of losing yourself and losing your integrity? When you think about compromising, what are . . . → Read More: When To Compromise…And When Not To Compromise Are you limiting your life – allowing fear to stop you from doing what brings you joy? “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~Nelson Mandela Do you feel passionate about your life? If not, you are . . . → Read More: Are You Playing Too Small? Comments are closed Relationships being big, Depression, family, Inner Bonding, joy, manifestation, Margaret Paul, passion, personal development, personal growth, playing small, psychology |
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