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Bio Moment – Health Anxiety, Be Gone!

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…

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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

Bio Moment – Uphill Battle

28 May 202128 May 2021

TW: Depression I may be projecting (probably am) but I can only assume that you - the collective "you" - are tired of hearing about my (and other's) depression. I…

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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…

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Remember this one?* – Ordinarily Well

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.…

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Remember this one?* – Always Looking Up

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.” ― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist How can you not love…

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Remember this one? – One of my favorite posts of all time! The Apothecary Museum

16 Jun 202016 Jun 2020

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We’d get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family-style restaurant that’s long-since closed) and…

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Remember this one? – Migraine

19 May 202019 May 2020

Ann Redfearn’s Migraine is one of my books with little post-it arrows sticking out, marking important pages. It’s not a big book like the Fibro book I talked about last month. It’s small…

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Remember this one? – “Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain”

I remember the first time I mentioned to my doctor that I believe I have Fibromyalgia. She rolled her eyes. I stopped as I wrote that last part, about her…

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Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Nana & Bappa’s Legacy

2 Feb 202012 Aug 2020

My friends and readers, Thanks so much for being patient with me during the transition from laze-about blogger to full-time employee with a blog side-hustle. Sixty may be the new…

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Bio Moment – Black (and blue) Friday

29 Nov 201929 Nov 2019

My day began as any other. Lately, that means bed until I fully wake up and care enough to get out of it. Sometimes, that happens as late as noon.…

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Mind Over Mood – First, you must understand the problem

28 Sep 20199 Oct 2019

Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger, PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD is the perfect self-help book, if by self-help you mean actually doing stuff to ... you know... help yourself.…

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Full Catastrophe Living – Reminds me of someone I know (Hint: it’s me!)

25 Aug 20199 Oct 2019

"This book is an invitation to the reader to embark upon a journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning, and healing." From page 1 of the Introduction- Stress, Pain, and Illness: Facing the…

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Bio Moment – Lesson learned (the hard way, as usual!)

30 Jul 201930 Jul 2019

Be glad I'm not sharing the live video I did (and then deleted) on Facebook about this situation (that you don't know yet). I know, I know... I should have…

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Romany Fortunes – Dabbling

23 Jul 201923 Jul 2019

I dabble. <<<<< There, I said it. I am open to pretty-much anything except the Ouiji board. That bad-boy is just evil. But I digress. I found Romany Fortunes by…

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Bio Moment – Before I was so rudely interrupted by getting sick as a dog

As my friends and family will tell you, I have trouble finishing things. Oh heck, maybe you've noticed, too. Upon second thought, yeah, you probably have. Noticed, that is. Yes,…

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Aromatherapy for Mind & Body – Scent from nature :-)

13 Jun 20199 Oct 2019

Aromatherapy for Mind & Body by David Schiller & Carol Schiller is the kind of book you go back to again and again. What I like about this particular book…

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Remember this one? – Overcoming Health Anxiety

3 May 20193 May 2019

I can’t talk about this book without talking about myself. I don’t have a light case or dabble in it… I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…

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Bio Moment – What Tiffany taught me today!

5 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

The photo is my dental hygienist and me, who chose to let my hair go "natural" (no straightening) on possibly the worst kind of day. It's overcast, with heavy air…

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Easy like Sunday – Look Ma, no static!

17 Mar 201912 Aug 2020

One of my more UNendearing traits is procrastination. I can NOT do something longer than pretty-much anyone I know. If there were a contest and the winner won a trip…

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The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need – Hey! That’s what I was gonna name MY book!

10 Mar 20199 Oct 2019

If you're like me, you think I've already written about this book. In fact, I haven't. We are confusing it with this "last book" I wrote about in October, 2018. The…

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Easy like Sunday – Sometimes you feel like a fraud, sometimes you don’t.

20 Jan 201912 Aug 2020

Let's talk about depression and anxiety and writing a blog about self-help. Let's talk about reading hundreds - possibly tens of hundreds - of self-help books but at times, feeling…

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Remember this one?- A man named Turtle and his excellent website

Al Turtle’s Relationship Wisdom will keep you busy for a few days… weeks… okay, months. To be clear from the onset, I do not know him personally nor am I getting…

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Bio Moment – It’s my ONE YEAR BLOGAVERSARY!

20 Oct 201820 Oct 2018

One year ago, I sat at my kitchen table, on this computer, and typed my first words as The Self-Help Whisperer™. Little did I know that the words "Who is…

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Undoing Depression – If only!

21 Sep 20189 Oct 2019

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…

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This is Me – And me, too

15 Aug 20189 Oct 2019

“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…

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Wherever You Go, There You Are – A Confession

12 Jul 20189 Oct 2019

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…

Self-Help Whispering

Self-help in Other Places – The Apothecary Museum

6 Jul 20186 Jul 2018

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We'd get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family style restaurant that's long-since closed)…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Oh, THAT’S what I was doing!?

1 Jul 201812 Aug 2020

Fair Warning: I do gross things sometimes. I describe them here. Three days ago, I decided my fingernails, which I had been growing and polishing for the last year, were…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – That little voice

3 Jun 201812 Aug 2020

I've talked about this before. I've also talked about this before. If you don't feel like checking out the links, I'll tell you that the first "this" is intuition and…

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Will I Ever Be Good Enough? – The mother-in-question is me

2 May 20189 Oct 2019

Do I notice the irony of the subtitle on this blog post? Why yes, yes I do. It's taken me a long time to write about Will I Ever Be Good…

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She’s Come Undone – Part II – What is normal?

25 Apr 20189 Oct 2019

I've just finished She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb for the second time. And for the second time, I am amazed that a man wrote this book with such clarity about a…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – I’m a Survivor

31 Mar 20184 May 2018

I don't believe in self pity It only brings you down May be the queen of broken hearts But I don't hide behind the crown... With gentle hands and a…

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I’m Looking Through You – Haunted

1 Feb 20189 Oct 2019

Jennifer Finley Boylan is an amazing woman! Before picking up this audio book at the library, I'd never heard of her. I listened to it and then - by a…

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Overcoming Health Anxiety – I told you I was sick

23 Jan 20189 Oct 2019

I can't talk about this book without talking about myself. I don't have a light case or dabble in it... I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Doing it afraid

15 Dec 201715 Dec 2017

You may have noticed from the photo, I had allergy testing done today. Just a head's up that #3 is cat dander. Number 2, equally as angry-looking, is cat fur.…

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A Year to Live – Little book packs big punch

24 Nov 20179 Oct 2019

Stephen Levine passed away last year. Before he did, he worked tirelessly to help others approach their own deaths. He wrote best sellers about what he learned from other's travels and…

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