Motivation and Inspiration Articles

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• The Drawing Mind: Silence Your Inner Critic and Release Your Inner Creative Spirit
  Part sketchbook, part tutorial, part self-help and part art project, Deborah Putnoi’s The Drawing Mind is a book like you’ve never seen before. The subtitle gets to the heart of it: Silence Your Inner Critic ...
• The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (And the World)
  Nice.  On its own, the word “nice” can carry a variety of tones.  It can imply “good” or “generous;” on the other hand, if it is used sarcastically, it can imply the complete opposite.  How ...
• Kiss That Frog! 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work
  The late comedian George Carlin had a great line about self-help books: “If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That’s not self­-help. That’s help!” While we can all ...
• Revisiting a School Program that Rescued ‘Losers’
  A few years ago, I read Dr. Bob Brooks’ monthly article which focused on one of his favorite themes: schools ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Living a Meaningful Life
  We all want to lead a life with some sort of meaning. What that meaning ...
• Schools Fail to Educate at Least 30 Percent of Our Students
  “No Child Left Behind” is a joke. Most of the ...
• The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life
  "The psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl said, ‘In between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our ...
• Seeking Enlightenment: The Spiritual Journey of a Psychotherapist
  Seeking Enlightenment by Catherine Morrison is a short memoir of one therapist’s journey in conceptualizing Eastern and Western spirituality. Morrison tries to come to terms with how these two diverse spiritual traditions cross paths in ...
• Manage Your Depression Through Exercise: The Motivation You Need to Start and Maintain an Exercise Program
  Starting any exercise program can be a tough task.  However, for those suffering from depression, it can be close to impossible.  Just getting out of bed is a struggle for some; how are they to ...
• How Clinicians Practice Self-Care & 9 Tips for Readers
  Self-care is vital for well-being, and no group knows that better than clinicians. Not only do they help clients learn to take better care ...
• Manage Your Depression Through Exercise
  Starting any exercise program can be a tough task.  However, for those suffering from depression, it can be close to impossible.  Just getting out of bed is a struggle for some; how are they to ...
• 8 Tips for Working from Home with Mental Illness
  People with mental illness struggle with the same time management troubles, distraction dilemmas and isolation issues as others ...
• 15 Tips to Boost Your Well-Being and Happiness
  Taking better care of your body boosts your well-being fairly fast. “[Exercising and eating well] provide nearly instant benefits, ...
• Find the Upside of the Down Times
  Some people have all the bad luck, and by any measure Rob Pennington, author of Find the Upside of the Down Times, has had more than his fair share. He was shot in the chest, ...
• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
  In 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, Peter Bregman doesn’t offer a slew of strategies to accomplish all your activities per day. What he does offer is an ...
• House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated
  When I was a psychology major, part of our lab work involved observing people through a one-way mirror.  In House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated, edited by Drs. Ted Cascio and Leonard Martin, the one-way ...
• A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys
  A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys is written for anyone who has felt the pull between the chaos of everyday living and the longing for a rich spiritual life.  Pesi ...
• 20 Ideas from Creativity Connoisseurs To Inspire Your Imagination
  Creativity is not a gift bestowed to a select few before birth. Everyone is creative. It’s just ...