Living with Chronic Pain or Chronic Illness
Coping with chronic pain or chronic illness in recovery is important because it affects you in many ways. Physically, you are uncomfortable and may have a hard time sleeping. Emotionally you may feel depressed, hopeless and frustrated. Socially you may feel...Understanding the Many Causes of Depressive Symptoms
While there are many symptoms of depression, each of these symptoms can be caused by other things. Depression indicates a chemical imbalance which can be caused by stress, trauma, negative thinking and more
Working a Happiness Program
There are many aspects to working a recovery program or developing a Happiness Lifestyle. Each day presents it’s own unique challenges, so it is important to have the basics in place which include: Mindful self-awareness, and an action plan which includes social support and vulnerability prevention to deal with life on life’s terms. All of these are tools to working a well-rounded program. No one thing is more important than the other. In a Happiness Lifestyle you will not always be deliriously happy, because life always has challenges, disappointments and irritants. However, you will have the knowledge that you deserve to be happy, and the distress is tolerable and will not go on forever.