Category: mental illness
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The Ghost of My Mother
Article by Brooke Chang, Pathway to Joy and Healing My mother passed away recently providing insights into my relationship with her and other relationships in my life. I had a complicated relationship with my mother. She left me at age one in Taiwan, first with my maternal grandparents then I was shuttled to my paternal…
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10 Things You Can Do When You Feel Emotionally Triggered
Article by W. Brooke Chang, Pathway to Joy and Healing Do you ever feel overwhelmed by emotional triggers? Most people are aware of experiencing emotional triggers. Some are more upsetting than others. Someone may say something that reminds you of a past negative experience. A thought or experience may remind you of a past trauma.…
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Reflecting on Past Lessons
In the last couple of months, I have been reflecting on my journey for the past five years. It is coming full circle, I reflected on the men I earlier attracted who were similar to my father. One person was so similar to my father as his son also does not speak to him and…
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Art and the Artist
As some of you may know, I am an amateur artist in that I don’t sell my art work professionally. My interest in art began as a form of emotional healing and art therapy. It has helped me tremendously to tap into my right brain where I believe emotional healing can take place. As I…
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The Miracle of Healing
For every effort we make towards emotional healing, we are rewarded with a positive outcome. This is what I have learned from the spiritual ascension work that I have been doing to heal my past emotional wounds. In the past three and half years, I have worked tirelessly to recover from my emotional wounds in…
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The Cycle of Pain
In my earlier post, I shared with you that I have been observing those around me who are stuck in the cycle of pain. What this cycle is – while I have personally experienced this for most of my life – involves denial of our emotional pain. Through this denial, we suppress or repress this…
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The Dangers of Denial
Sometimes when we deny what is truly happening to us emotionally, mentally, or physically, we say and believe that only we are affected by this, so what’s the big deal? Well, the truth is that those we love in our lives also are negatively affected by this, and our loved ones end up leaving us…
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