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How to Have Healthy Boundaries with Family
How to Have Healthy Boundaries with Family

I’d like to think many of us have been here at some point… You know that place where you love your parents but could use a heads-up before they show up knocking at your front door. Or maybe you’ve noticed how your typically adored sibling has been unloading more than you have the brain space for right now. And sometimes, it’s nice just to unplug and recharge—but doing so proves tricky when your neighbors start shouting over the fence the moment you step out for some air. So, what can we do?

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Mental Health, Tips, Relationships, HealingJeff Moweryboundaries, family, behavior, healthy boundaries, setting boundariesComment
Healing From Mental Illness: What You Can't See, You Can't See
Healing From Mental Illness: What You Can't See, You Can't See

Years ago, in the middle of my agoraphobic, social phobic, depressed state, you could’ve never convinced me that healing from mental illness was possible, probable even. Like a tornado crushes a trailer park, mental illness ravaged my entire life. And I couldn’t see beyond the swirling debris the tornado of mental illness was tossing all around me…

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Mental Health, HealingJeff Mowery1802 Chapel Hills Dr. hope, peace, mental illness, help, anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, social phobia, hopelessness Comments
Peace is a Road, Not a Destination
Peace is a Road, Not a Destination

Years ago, I believed peace was something we got and kept when we figured out its magic formula. The harder I tried to catch it, the quicker it moved away though…like trying to grab a fly. Then, after open-heart surgery, I discovered that I’d been on the road of peace for quite some time. I was just driving so intently that I didn't see the signage…

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Healing, PeaceJeff MoweryRestoring Lives Counseling Services, LLCpeace, hope, depression, anxious, hurt, pain, suffering, tortureComment