In “Any Day with Hair Is a Good Hair Day,” I loved the story about “The House of a Thousand Mirrors” that Michelle tells at the beginning of her section on “Maintaining a Positive Attitude without Feeling Like a Human Smiley Face.” If you knew Michelle, you’d appreciate this tale even more, because Michelle isn’t…

In a previous post called “Six Things Cancer Patients Have Taught Me,” I outline a few techniques I have borrowed from my friends battling cancer. I realize the two are different in many ways, but many of the same recovery tricks work for both. To read my post, click here.

Jane Chin’s website was one of the first in the mental health field I discovered, and I’ve been so impressed with the prolific work she does with Chinspirations.com–which includes 18 (that’s right!) of her own blogs, and, more specifically, with Jane’s Mental Health Source Page. She created her website in 1998 when she was a…

One of my favorite posts of Jane Chin’s is her essay, “I’m Here to Remind You that You Aren’t Your Illness,” about breaking free of her “pot,” or her past and all the negativity associated with her struggle with depression, about her way of trying to experiment with a new vision of self tied less…

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