Life, Liberty, and Happiness: The Internal Revolution

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are what we all crave. The need for the human soul to have power over their own lives led to the American Revolution and is what leads us to an internal revolution against the effects of trauma that would hold us prisoner. It is what drives us to work through and beyond the devastating events that would steal our freedom.

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Reclaiming Your Identity After Trauma

We cannot choose the past, but we can build a future by mining the strengths and goodness inside us. Ultimately, we can choose to stay in the muck of the pain and anguish, or we can choose to own our lives and discover and nurture our true identities.

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Why Can’t I Cry? Exploring Emotional Barriers

The inability to accept or fully feel and express any intense emotion can lead to depression, burying us deeper in the trauma we’re trying to escape. The truth is, keeping emotion boxed up makes us weaker, more vulnerable, and more at the mercy of the past. Not feeling does not equal being strong.

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Hope Beyond Diagnosis: Redefining Your Future

Do our challenges with mental illness determine our destination? The answer is often as complex as the diagnosis. But in short, the answer is no. Mental illness does not have to determine our destination. We have the ability to choose the direction our life will take. Life experiences can alter how we get to our destination, but we can choose where we end up.

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Fighting Depression

Depression is real and affects people of all walks of life. There is hope and help. In fighting depression, we cannot control how the enemy will fight, but we can choose to stand our ground.

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