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Alright so I may have said somewhere back that I was never going to do twitter, but, well, I caved in. So far I think I have five people following me: my husband, my kids, my mother, and my sister. Something like that anyway. If you want an easy way to access Beyond Blue, I…

I admire my friend and fellow blogger Katherine Stone for being such a warrior in the fight to understand postpartum depression. Whenever controversy surfaces in the media, my first inclination is to run and hide, whereas hers is to get in there and start fighting. She gathered a number of mental health bloggers and advocates…

(Image: Getty Images) You know how I’ve been telling you all to head to the mirror and say to the gorgeous creature staring back at you: “I’m good enough, I’m strong enough, Gosh darn it, people like me!” Yah, well, forget about that now. Because there is new research that says happy thoughts might make…

(Image credits: kaneda99) You know how you try to push out a rude, intrusive thought as you sit down to work or do the laundry, or read a book to your kids? Yeah, well try not to do that. On the UK site, PSYBLOG, I found an interesting article about “how pushing a thought out…

On Mindful Monday, my readers and I practice the art of pausing, TRYING to be still, or considering, ever so briefly, the big picture. We’re hoping this soul time will provide enough peace of mind to get us through the week! I’ve always wanted a wife: a person responsible for making piles of laundry disappear,…

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has a lovely quote on practicing mindfulness: In his book, “Wherever You Go There You Are,” he writes: Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in…

I loved this blog post by Beyond Blue reader Mel about what she learns from her dog, Ollie. I thought I’d give you 7 of her items and make you check out her blog to get the last three. Mel is the co-chair of Group Beyond Blue and does a wonderful job of bringing some…

Thanks to James Bishop of FindingOptimism.com, I found this great piece on Dilbert.com by Scott Adams about why dogs benefit a person’s health more than cats. He’s got some interesting hypotheses … one of which is that you have to walk a dog. That is, you have to walk a dog outside. Which forces you…

On my post “6 Favorite Prayers,” Beyond Blue reader June wrote: “Thank you so much for these!?Will there be a sequel?” Here my sequel! 9 of my favorite scripture verses … Ecclesiastes 3: A Time for Everything There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be…

I’ve missed Beyond Blue reader Larry Parker’s wise and insightful comments on Beyond Blue. I didn’t realize how much I missed them until he wrote this in response to Vincent on the combox of my post, “What If You Have No Faith?” Vincent: I am a fellow traveler (bipolar disorder type II), so I can…
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