Can Boundaries Save Lives?
Since I started my work with several clients in Peer Support, I have found that boundaries can often be a central issue…
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How I Use Colorful Imagery to Succeed
I like to think I have a pretty imaginative mind. Sometimes that greatly helps my struggle against my symptoms. Today, I’ll give the example of a battle…
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How I Entered Into Recovery
One of the most vexing aspects of caring for someone with mental illness is that you can’t MAKE them recover. We with our illnesses…
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Excited For A “Good Day”
I had a great day yesterday! I missed Church and was quite depressed about it!
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Friday the 13th
Today, my alarms didn’t wake me up, so I was asleep until late morning, unlike my typical routine where I wake up decently early and am ready for the day. It seems appropriate that this would happen on Friday the 13th. So what gives? Is there truth to this somehow? Maybe in some small way, there is…
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How To Fix The Hardest Problems
I’ve been open on this blog about my struggle to get to church. I tried many things to get to church, but it just felt like a struggle I couldn’t win for a while. I knew I’d get there, but I didn’t know how. Well, in the last couple months, I’ve not missed church a single time. Let me tell you how…
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Will Medications Make Me Better?
Psychotropic medications are powerful tools- some of the most powerful we have. But do they fix everything with a pill?
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What is Peer Support?
Some time ago, I expanded Healing Student from being only a blog to also being a Peer Support practice. Peer Support Specialists are relatively new to the mental health field, so I want to help explain what we do…
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Handling Shame 101
One of the deepest, most recurring struggles I’ve had is that of shame…
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Religion in Peer Support Work
Always branching into new topics, I intend to share things I’ve learned about how to use my story to help others. Religion is particularly difficult to manage in peer support work, but it can be done, and I think it’s better done carefully than not done at all. It’s worth the risk…
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