Holidays and Mental Health | Great Learning Opportunities

The holiday season is an excellent opportunity to learn about how our mental health relates to our personal and family relationships. For simplicities’ sake, I'd say people tend to fall into three categories1. They LOVE the holidays2. They can go…

Finding Comfort in The Gray Area of Mental Health Diagnosis

When I entered recovery and sobered up, many of the suggestions I received were to avoid getting 'diagnosed' until I had a little recovery under my belt. The general recommendation was one year. That varies from person to person. During this…

Mental Health Recovery and the Karate Kid

One of the biggest problems people have with mental health recovery is they focus on the end goal instead of on the process. When working through mental health recovery we have the tendency to focus on where we want to…