New Wellness Story

It’s Never Too Late to Create Your New Story of Wellness

Wellness Defined

Wellness integrates mind, body and spirit with a balanced flow of energy. It is an ongoing process of choices that become the stories of our lives. Wellness is a choice: a lifestyle that integrates mind, body, and spirit. The experience of wellness includes self-acceptance, interconnectedness, meaning, and purpose to consciously live well.

The Power of Story

We learn through stories. Stories are how we understand and how we remember. A story is a system for holding together facts. A story makes things make sense. Defense lawyers know this. Little kids standing next to broken vases know this. Read more...

We Must Grieve

When we experience any type of loss, whether a death, diagnosis, or broken relationship, there is a loss of something important that is created by the change in routine or lifestyle. If you’ve had an injury, whether athlete, weekend warrior, or parent chasing after little ones, there is often a sense of longing for what was once but will no longer be. Well-meaning friends and family may say that we need to just get over it or find something else to take its place, but that beloved activity was more than just a past-time; it represented, in some ways, the personal power and control over our own bodies that has been taken away. Read more...

Does Time Really Heal ALL Wounds?

This common saying may be true for scraped knees and paper cuts, but not for broken hearts. Yes, it does take time to recover from emotional pain, but time alone is not enough. The following article is a great example of why time just isn’t enough.

The FLAW in T.H.A.W.

Most dangerous of the incorrect ideas that keep grievers stuck.

by Russell Friedman, Grief Recovery Institute

T.H.A.W. are the letters I doodled last week while talking on the phone with a well-intentioned, but misguided mental health professional. She was intoning the old, but always false idea that Time Heals All Wounds. Read more...

Stages of Grief?

Many years ago Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote a book entitled On Death and Dying. The book identified five stages that a dying person goes through when they are told that they have a terminal illness. Those stages are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. For many years, in the absence of any other helpful material, well-meaning people incorrectly assigned those same stages to the grief that follows a death or loss. Although a griever might experience some or all of those feeling stages, it is not a correct or helpful basis for dealing with the conflicting feelings caused by loss. Read more...