SOMEONE HEAR MY SILENCE Fighting back the tears, trying to grasp at your voice, determined to empower your body to move...to just pick up the pen to write something down, the voice in your head tells you, "Pick up the pen, write it down, make a note, it's so easy to move your hand toward the pen...pick it up!" Yet nothing, no movement, no thought as to how this will play out, your brain says, "What's the point? There's no point." You know you don't matter, nobody cares if you're alive, you don't even care if you're alive, everything is all wrong, if fact just being on this earth, being alive feels wrong. It feels like you're a prisoner of your own mind and body. It's said that depression is a mental struggle. Struggle? It's more than a "struggle." It's overwhelming when you can't breathe and there's the weight of an elephant on your chest, it's impossible to push something as heavy as an elephant of...
YOU'RE ALWAYS BEING WATCHED: Need a confidence boost? Everyone does. When you take time to make a good first impression, especially for a special event, so don’t mess it up. As soon as a person looks at you, within seconds, they’ve already judged you and your personality. We all may want to say, “ I don’t judge others based on their looks.” Ha! If you’re at a formal event and someone walks into a room, head hunched down, wearing a wrinkled shirt with crocks on, what’s your first impression of them? They can be the wealthiest person in the world, yet you, along with everyone in the room, have already judged that person. Even if you get to know them later and discover they are remarkable, that first impression has already been engraved inside your brain. For example if the media has falsely reported a major event on something and the next had to redact it, on page 10, in fine print, and you’re informed it’s all lies, that first information sticks with you. The dam...