One of the painful realities of living with depression and anxiety is that far too often we get lost in our own distorted reality. We frame up the events and people around us in a manner that leaves us believing we are the victims of a world that is out to get us or that […]
For Christmas this year my oldest child Archer gave me a book. This wasn’t a book they had read nor was it a book that had been recommended to them. Rather, as Archer explained to me “It just seemed like a book that might speak to you.” So, it was with great anticipation that I […]
Boy it’s been a long time since I sat down to write one of these blogs, but it feels good to try to get back on track with them again. I am sure many of you are familiar with the Serenity Prayer which goes something like this, “God grant me the serenity to accept the […]
I had made a commitment to blog each week and I see it’s now been almost 2 months since my last blog. Ugh! Where does the time go? Oh, I know one place it goes and that is spending time building our Face It community! One of the themes that I have seen repeatedly with […]
I am sure you’ve heard the age-old debate about which came first, the chicken or the egg? There is a similar debate regarding depression, which comes first; the horrible feelings associated with being depressed or the negative thinking that accompanies being depressed? In other words, do I start to think horrible things because I am […]
I am a simple guy who finds joy in simple things. So, as I sat at the breakfast table the other day with my 16-year-old daughter and had the opportunity to bring together my love of hockey with some friendly parenting advice (that invariably ends up being her teaching me a lesson) I felt giddy. […]
