anxiety – The Self-Help Whisperer®

This is going to be written stream-of-consciousness and without my usual attention to detail. It's not to say it will be poorly-written, just quickly and without pretence. I have found…

Self-Help Whispering

A Day at the Park – And a Video From Me!

24 Jun 2021

You guys!! I had the BEST walk today in a NEW-to-me park! Oh, I've been in the parking lot and front section many times but never got out of the…

From My Bookshelf

Walking as self-help! – Perfect timing!

7 Jun 20213 Jul 2021

You guys! Today, I went for the first walk of what I hope will be many! I’m starting slow and let me tell you why... Several months ago my doctor…

Self-Help Whispering

Poem & Picture of the Day – “The Trees Know”

26 May 202126 May 2021

“Yes, I see the path,” I said “But I don’t follow rules Instead, I choose to weave among The wooden, leafy jewels.“ Removing shoes, I step upon Green carpet, lush…

Self-Help Whispering

The Me You Can’t See – Inside Out

25 May 202125 May 2021

TW: Mental Health, Suicide Ideation, Depression & Anxiety I've been watching the AppleTV series, "The Me You Can't See" and have been feeling that all-familiar nudge to write about it.…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Reflections on a Monday afternoon

3 May 20213 May 2021

For anyone else, today would just simply be... another day. For me? Not so much. It begins with a small gathering of medical appointments. Today, blood test. Wednesday, Covid vaccine…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Flying Without Fear

15 Apr 2021

Flying Without Fear by Duane Brown, Ph.D. is SUCH a good book that I carried it on flights for about a year… okay, seven. It helped. A LOT. I wasn’t always…

From My Bookshelf

Easy like Sunday – pERfectiON Not REquirED

14 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

April 14, 2021 Today's reblog is a post about my perfectionism and myriad meds. Fitting. See, yesterday, after six months of being off, I decided to go back on my…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Doing it afraid

7 Apr 20217 Apr 2021

April 7, 2021 Up for reblogging today is a post about my health anxiety and my asthma and my this and my that because CLEARLY I am the most important…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – The Bandaid

31 Mar 20211 Apr 2021

Last night, as we got into bed, I took a heavy quilt off my side of the bed and tossed it aside. It had been my second attempt at using…

From My Bookshelf

Spiritually Sassy – Radical, baby!

18 Feb 202118 Feb 2021

Just two days ago, I shared a teensy-tiny hint about this book. I've given it the once-over and now have gone back to the beginning to dig in and work…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – My Age of Anxiety

17 Feb 2021

“It is a fact—I say this from experience—that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.” ― Scott Stossel My…

From My Bookshelf

The Last Taboo – Mental Illness, thy name is Stigma

10 Feb 202113 Apr 2021

TW: Discussion of mental health disorders, suicide ideation and a deep dive into stigma. It seems only fitting that I link Canadian Amazon on a book about Mental Health in…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?*- Rich Dad, Poor Dad

8 Feb 2021

I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. I know…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – When a Parent is Depressed

5 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

In the interest of honesty, I almost didn’t write today. I did a “Remember this one?” post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again… into the spiral…

Self-Help Whispering

I don’t say this lightly – It’s PTSD

11 Jan 202111 Jan 2021

Late this morning, I was sitting in bed, where I have spent WAY too much time since this lockdown began (okay, and before that, also. Ugh.) after having caught up…

Self-Help Whispering

The Mane Event – But also, NOT (about hair, that is!)

4 Jan 20214 Jan 2021

Allow me to introduce you to my Hair Valet, shown in my featured photo. I call it my "Hair Valet" because it allows me to do my hair without so-much-as…

Self-Help Whispering

And a Merry, Happy, Joyful, Loving, Sparkling, Healthy, Healing Christmas Eve to YOU!

24 Dec 202024 Dec 2020

Snow's-a-comin' this way!! Can I get a whoop-whoop? The holidays have been difficult for me since moving to Canada (read: stomach-tugging, family-missing-difficult). I've never been able to spend it with…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – 10% Happier

19 Dec 202029 Dec 2020

"But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Ordinarily Well

1 Dec 2020

Ordinarily Well by Peter D. Kramer is about antidepressants. More to the point, it is about if they work. Kramer is not merely a bystander… he is a psychiatrist and scholar.…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Stormy Daze

15 Nov 202016 Nov 2020

It's a VERY stormy day today! The winds are so strong it feels as if the house will blow down. We've been so lucky over the last two weeks with…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense

14 Nov 202014 Nov 2020

Dont get me wrong. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by Suzette Haden Elgin is excellent. It’s just that… well… come with me and we’ll get where I’m going. I’ve read (what…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Undoing Depression

12 Nov 2020

I love the subtitle of Richard O’Connor’s Undoing Depression: “What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You”… because… it’s always felt to me that there was something… some component… that…

Self-Help Whispering

An online depression test you might appreciate – I do!

10 Nov 202011 Nov 2020

I occasionally share websites I find along my travels... but in this case, it was shared with me... and I am sharing it with you. Brain Center TMS reached out…

Photography

Picture of the Day – The Sheryl Files

8 Nov 2020

My peeps, it had to happen. I'm depressed. And oh-so anxious. Shit. I wanted to go out and get some shots on this fantastic, unusually warm, November Sunday... But... Instead...…

Photography…

Picture of the Day – A Haiku- “Hello darkness, my old friend”

1 Nov 20201 Nov 2020

Alone with his thoughts Deep inside his hoodie world The darkness lives there.

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – A long story & A bonus musing at the end

29 Oct 20207 Dec 2020

Facebook is so kind to bring up memories from past years. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, always a peek into what was going on in my head that same day last…

Photography

Picture of the Day -“Orange Solitude”

10 Oct 2020

From My Bookshelf

24/6 – What the world needs now…

5 Oct 2020

“One day a week, we’d turn off the technology in our lives. We called it our “technology Shabbat.” From sundown on Fridays to sundown on Saturdays, we shut down every…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – This is Me

3 Oct 2020

"Honeybees are meaningful to me because technically they’re not supposed to be able to fly. We know they do, but in the 1930s, French scientists ‘proved’ they couldn’t. Their reasoning…

Self-Help Whispering

How are we doing?

11 Sep 2020

So, I’ve lost about ten pounds since we stopped eating meat. Only 100+ more to go. 🙄 I kinda digress, yes here, at the very beginning of the post. 🤣…

Photography

Picture of the Day – In search of breath & flowers

23 Aug 2020

I am sure I'm not alone in saying I hate Covid-19. I hate that a whole spring and summer was spent inside and that we finally went to the mall…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Begin with Yes

13 Aug 202013 Aug 2020

Begin with Yes by Paul S. Boynton is easy reading and the message itself is simple: Begin with Yes. Then how come it took me 64 pages to say, “Oh! I get…

From My Bookshelf

Healing the Child Within – For Crying Out Loud!

3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020

Don't be fooled by me. Don't be fooled by the face I wear for I wear a mask, a thousand masks, masks that I'm afraid to take off, and none…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Earthy Language

25 Jul 202012 Aug 2020

Back about fifteen years ago, my mom told me that her housekeeper had called me, "Earthy" because I said someone was - and I quote - "an ass". She considered…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – Wherever You Go, There You Are

18 Jun 2020

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn is…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Shadows, Cats & Wolves

21 May 202021 May 2020

Okay, the featured photo is Bette. She and I are very much alike - we both appreciate deep relaxation, eating treats, are a bit on the chubby side, love to…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment -I want to talk to you

2 May 20202 May 2020

I want to… I really do… But instead, I will say unimportant things because it takes less effort and I find I am so very tired these days. Does it…

Photography…

Picture of the Day -“Ghandi says…”

25 Apr 2020

Photography

Picture of the Day -“Grateful I Live Here!”

24 Apr 2020

I love and pray for my country 🇺🇸 and all my family live there. I'm so worried about them. Thankful I live in Canada 🇨🇦 where medical care and this…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – We’re in this together!

15 Apr 202015 Apr 2020

We're in this together. <<< The thing that's said which is supposed to make us feel more connected but in truth, shows how very alone we are.<<< Maybe we should…

If you have a medical or mental health emergency, call your doctor or 911.

Nothing contained in this blog (The Self-Help Whisperer®) is intended to establish or replace a physician-patient relationship or services.

If you are IN CRISIS and NEED TO TALK but don’t know who to call…

In USA: Mental Health America In Crisis? Call 1-800-273-TALK

Or elsewhere in the world – By Country, as compiled by Wikipedia

Suicide hotline numbers

Someone dies from suicide every 40 seconds

United States 1 800 273 8255

Canada 1 800 456 4566