Leslie Glass's Blog, page 198
January 6, 2020
You Can Break The “Curse”
You can break the curse – don’t let anything dictate how you should live. If something feels wrong, change it. Take the bull by the horns and go for it. Don’t fall into an endless cycle because it’s what you know. People don’t improve if they stay in their comfort zones.
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Don’t Let Loneliness Drive You Back To Toxic People
Toxic people will always have their arms open – especially when they know about your misery and loneliness. It’s easy to fall into their trap – but use what you learned from them the first time around to avoid a second trap.
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Do You Have A Thankful Heart?
Is your heart thankful? It can be hard to appreciate anything when there’s no gratitude. The good and the bad shape us. Here’s how you can find self love and acceptance through the bad.
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January 4, 2020
Recovery Literacy Helps Everyone Heal
Recovery literacy is understanding the process of healing for everyone impacted by addiction. When a loved one uses, family relationships break down. Healthy communication is disrupted. Families often become paralyzed as the situation worsens. It takes months or years for healthy relationships to erode and become unmanageable. I call the impact of substance use on...
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How To Restore Relationships In Recovery
Would you love to restore precious relationships that have been destroyed by addiction? So did I. In the high school years of my loved one’s substance use, all I wanted was for it to stop. I did what many parents do. I covered it up. I didn’t tell anyone. I thought substance and alcohol use...
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When Your Heart Is Broken, Just Keep Moving
“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have is not permanent.” ~Jean Kerr Here’s the thing no one tells you about dating—it sucks. The uncertainty, the inconsistency, the stress. Dating has always been easy for me. Or so I thought. The more I think back, the more I see I accepted things...
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The Debilitating Anxiety Symptom No One Ever Talks About
Until only recently, I kept a big aspect of my anxiety hidden from the world because I was deathly afraid of the consequences I would suffer if I talked about it. I was already fearful of the judgment I may experience from opening up about my anxiety, but this was huge. What if people thought...
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A Mental Health Resolution Might Be Superior To A Diet Resolution
The holiday season is notoriously indulgent: holiday parties and gifts lead to an abundance of sugary foods, meat, and alcohol. Like clockwork, many indulgers commit to a shift in diet upon the midnight stroke of the clock on December 31. This social construct of resolving to have “good” health in the new year takes many forms: Dry...
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Childhood Emotional Neglect: What It Is and How to Heal
Physical abuse leaves physical scars, and emotional abuse leaves psychic ones, but what about emotional neglect? The absence of emotional support in childhood can be as damaging and long-lasting as other traumas. But, because you can’t point to exactly where and when the wounding happened, it can be hard to identify and overcome it....
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January 3, 2020
20 Powerful Quotes to Help Minimize Conflict and Drama
If you anticipate today might be fraught with conflict or drama, take a few minutes to reflect on the following quotes (including a couple of my own). Perhaps something here might help you create a little peace—for yourself and the people around you. 20 Quotes for a Drama-Free Life 1. “The people who trigger us to...
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