A Chronic Pain Survivor's Journey through Resilience

Resiliency offers anyone skills to improve their quality of life.

Resiliency is not merely positive thinking, it is active thinking, productive thinking. You acknowledge the problem and are given a set of tools to move forward.

Salire (sah-lee-ray)

Verb, to rise

"Life is tough my darling but so are you."

DAJ

Nov 18

Our Thoughts Determine Our Reality

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” Dale Carnegi...

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Nov 5

Celebrate

"Life should not only be lived it should be celebrated." Osho I had much to celebrate this weekend when my oldest son was married to a wo...

DAJ

Oct 27

Cultivate Acceptance

"Happiness can only exist in acceptance." To cultivate acceptance, instead of thinking about parts of us as broken that need to be fixed w...

DAJ

Oct 13

Practice Peace

“Every day brings a choice to practice stress or practice peace!” My husband enjoying the peace I had an appointment for a two-hour root ...

DAJ

Sep 13

We Are More Than The Worst That Has Happened To Us

“We are more than the worst thing that ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and back and come ...

DAJ

Aug 30

3 Secrets of Resilient People

“From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadow shall spring.” J.R.R. Tolkein Today was lovely and wonderful. Fall weather...

DAJ

Jul 2

Look At The Stars

“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde Suffering is not selective everyone experiences it at som...

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Mar 11

Anxiety Nothing More Than Failure In Advance

“Anxiety is nothing more than repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.” Seth Godin For the past week, I’ve been cripp...

DAJ

Feb 27

Be Kind Always

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato Somebody shamed me today for a mistake I made. I tried to tell myself t...

DAJ

Feb 5

I've Got A Dream

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney I may have been an unusual child. I grew up in a trailer park, spending much of my time...