It’s Only Me, Right? I’m The Only One!
Time and time again in my work I have clients who confess feelings, quietly, ashamedly, as though they were something horribly awful. Time and time again I have had the privilege of helping them to realize that most of the time, what they are experiencing is not only “normal” but is actually commonplace. [...]
May 4, 2010
Tags: anxiety, capacity building, helping others, sanity, Tips Posted in: Sane 
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The Drumbeats Grow Louder
Photo credit: taliesin from morguefile.com
More and more frequently, I am seeing public, blatant, explicit statements and calls to action from my fellow Americans urging violence and war here at home. It’s easy to dismiss those as the statements of a few kooks when they are few and far between, but I am running across them [...]
March 13, 2010
Tags: common sense, critical thinking, danger, film, questions, sanity, war Posted in: Insane No Comments
Five Helpful Things to Consider For a Happier Life
We all have challenges in our lives, there’s no question of that. And some years (decades?) are far more challenging than others. However, there are some time-tested and fairly (to Ms. Sanity) unquestionable “laws” of life that will go a long way to helping folks lead happier, lest angst-filled lives. Yes, some of you will [...]
October 27, 2009
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Of Mania and Manic Meltdowns
Obviously this blog is called Manic Meltdown, and just as clearly to those who look around a bit, I rarely write about truly being manic. That’s largely because I rarely am manic, myself, I’m more of a unipolar depressive type myself, when my grip slips. (Yes, I know, that’s shocking to those of you who [...]
August 31, 2009
Tags: help, insanity, mental health, questions, Resources, sanity, Tips Posted in: Resources, Sane, Tips 2 Comments
His Holiness The Dalai Lama on Happiness
I wanted to share some words from the (current) fourteenth Dalai Lama, on how we can be happy in this world.
Here’s a hint/in a nutshell: it involves compassion. Compassion does not always come easily to me. But then, it may not come easily to anyone. It is, however, a blessing to all, when it is [...]
June 15, 2009
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Sometimes you’ve gotta say “Who Cares?”
Part of my work involves serving as a sort of lay counselor for some of my clients. One of the things I have noticed time and again is people, particularly women, driving themselves utterly insane, trying to figure out the “rules” in life and what is “really” the case about a certain situation. (In fact, [...]
May 13, 2009
Tags: anxiety, attitudes, calmness, capacity building, critical thinking, fears, questions, sanity, Tips Posted in: Sane, Tips 4 Comments
7 Tips To Raise Your Happiness Level TODAY
It’s not exactly new that there are lots of opportunities for feeling unhappy, disgruntled, and depressed these days. Most of us are in some way less than pleased about our situation in life, our bank balance, so on and so forth. That’s probably the human condition since time immemorial; cave dwellers probably felt on some [...]
April 20, 2009
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Why the Dalai Lama Rocks
I don’t know exactly when I first became aware of the (current) Dalai Lama, but I can vividly remember reading his autobiography and being utterly impressed and astonished at the depth of his thinking and his compassion–even for people in my (young and not very compassionate) view who “didn’t deserve it.” (e.g. those that had [...]
March 9, 2009
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Too Little Too Late; lessons for every business
I’ve been thinking about customer service a lot lately. As someone who does/has done a lot of work and a lot of selling online, for many years now, and who also had a lot of (basically tortured interesting) experience working with the public face to face in retail, I have a lot of experience with [...]
February 21, 2009
Tags: business, common sense, customer service, Ebay, economy, money, online auctions, Resources, sanity Posted in: Insane, Resources, Sane, Tips 4 Comments
Six Ways To Keep Yourself Centered In Gratitude
It’s ever so easy—particularly when times are tough as they are for lots of us economically right now— to focus on what’s wrong or what’s missing in one’s life. I’ve been shuffling around on this mortal coil long enough to know that what we pay attention to in our lives grows and gets bigger.
I don’t [...]
February 6, 2009
Tags: fears, gratitude, positivity, sanity, thoughts Posted in: Tips One Comment
