When Katherine Autin’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2004, she didn’t know much about the disease except for what she had heard from stars like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali. Faced with this mysterious and complicated disease, Katherine began to learn as much as she … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Visit Someone Who is Stuck At Home (A balloon might be a perfect thing to take)
Positive Mental Thinking
When Disappointment Rains Down
How to live victoriously anyway. It has been said that every person’s life is a diary in which he or she means to write one story, and is forced to write another. That is, we plan for one way; we are forced to travel another. But what shall we say of those crushing … [Read more...] about When Disappointment Rains Down
The Journey Alone: The person who cannot stand to be alone should seek to discover why.
Somewhere I read the riddle:As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives.Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats.Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives –How many were going to Saint Ives? I was never very good at math and trying to make … [Read more...] about The Journey Alone: The person who cannot stand to be alone should seek to discover why.
“I Am Bigger Than This”
How to change your thoughts Thought and expression are so closely bound together in us. Whenever we are thinking something, we are unconsciously verbalizing our thoughts. If we change the verbalization, we will change the thought, too. Likewise, if I verbalize my new … [Read more...] about “I Am Bigger Than This”
Finding Your Way Through Grief: Ways to Cope
Volunteering is one way of working through grief because it gets you out of your own experience. Grief puts a dark cloud over life and can make you feel like you will never feel happiness or joy again, but sometimes giving back to others in your darkest time brings a touch of … [Read more...] about Finding Your Way Through Grief: Ways to Cope