Coping with Job Loss
Opportunities are around you; choose the ones that pick you up and carry you forward.
Opportunities are around you; choose the ones that pick you up and carry you forward.
There are a number of steps you can take to ensure you’re ready to return to work without putting your mental health at risk.
Coming out as a person who had been living with mental illness helped me not only find my voice but realize I always had one.
As I began to accept that recovering from depression did not mean outgrowing my support system, it became easier to fight.
Say no to fear. Embrace your imperfections, they make you who you are.
It’s important to be patient with yourself and remember even the smallest steps forward add up.
Stereotypically, when you think of alcoholics, you think of homeless people on the streets drinking out of a brown paper bag. Alcoholics lose their jobs,
Being accountable to ourselves means recovery, and recovery means life, freedom, self-love, and happiness.
Pride can be a sneaky thing when you are recovering. I’ve learnt this quite recently. Over the course of my recovery, people have been very
With the start of college happening for many, I thought it might be helpful to write about how to hold oneself accountable in college and
A few months ago I was experiencing a low point in my recovery, and I was able to pretend that I was okay in front
Freeing myself from bulimia by following the guide (not rigid rules!) of Intuitive Eating was only the first step in my journey. Now, I know that I am enough.
This month, Libero is focusing on accountability. We’re exploring what it means to be accountable and to whom we need to be accountable with to assure
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a very self-conscious person. It’s possible it was caused by society, or maybe by my critical
I stay accountable to my own recovery, even with its setbacks, and the possibility that I might just make it through this thing in one, beautiful piece.
Accountability is a huge part of the recovery process. We need to hold ourselves accountable for our own recovery because we are the only ones
Food has always had control over my life. Whether it has been eating too much or not enough, I have always been consumed by food-related
Are you ever fully recovered from depression? This is a question I’ve been asked a lot. Someone who asked me this question most recently did so
Since recognizing my eating disorder, I became free from self-hatred, body-shaming, and society’s beauty standards. I let myself dress how I want, and not how the world tells me I should. I am able to eat most foods without guilt, shame, or hate.
Sometimes in life, we just wish there was an easy answer, a solution, a step-by-step instruction book to get us past the challenges and difficulties, and
Whether you want to share the truth regarding the origin of your self-harm scars is up to you and where you are at in your recovery.
One of the most destructive myths surrounding eating disorders is that you can’t truly heal until you feel ready to do so. If you are
My mental health issues and the shame that once surrounded them no longer control my life. I will graduate college in December 2013 and I can’t wait to see what life has to offer me now that I am free.
I still remember my first visit to Dr. Looney as a junior in high school (yes, that was actually his name). Earlier in the week,
Hi, my name is Heather and I would like to share my story with you in hopes that it will inspire you to get help
Recovery is an ongoing process, not a finish line you don’t at least glance back at over your shoulder from time to time.
This month’s focus is on questions we are asked. One seemingly simple, yet very complex, question I have gotten is if I am recovered from my
When I searched “fitness” in the App Store on my iPad, it came up with more results than I could scroll through. They ranged from
Change. The word we all want to hear, and the word we all hate to hear. For the average human being, change can be a
I am free from darkness. buy prednisone online buy prednisone online no prescription “Courage to Change: It takes great courage and inner strength to change from
I don’t have to be an athlete to love my body. I don’t have to workout to love my body. I don’t have to restrict myself to love my body. I just have to open my heart, embrace, and truly “be” to really see myself for all that I am.
I finally started to feel the first significant decrease in my depression symptoms the spring before I left for college. Over the summer, I continued
When I was in college I used to bemoan that recovering from my eating disorder was a full-time job. I wish I had known at the
He said: “It is for the her in the future – for you in the future – that you must begin to grow now. Do it
Traditionally, August has always been a month of transition. For me, August has seen both the start and end of my college education, the beginning
For so long, I had resigned myself to this somber way of life, completely devoid of self-love while faking my smiles to the world. I thought this was just the way I was made, the way I was meant to be. But suddenly, it was as if a door had opened to shine some light on my reality.