By: James McGinley
August 21, 2023

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We all need some quiet time. Typically, it means getting away from all the external noise in our lives, such as overlapping demands, chaotic conversations, and pressure to do or think what others want us to. The result is we get saturated and overloaded. We just want to get away from it all for a […]

By: Dr. Steven Farmer
August 16, 2023

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Breath. It’s something you can be aware of or turn over to your autonomic nervous system, which is linked directly into your survival instinct, and your body just . . . well, knows how to breathe. So you don’t have to think about it or put your attention directly on it. It just happens by […]

By: Ricky Lyman
July 28, 2023

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How I ended the misery of anxiety in my life. I woke up in a fog that morning. I woke up in somebody else’s apartment, in someone else’s life, as someone I barely knew. My skin felt heavy and dull. I was worn out and exhausted from constant worry and fear. 4 years earlier, I […]

By: Ricky Lyman
April 17, 2023

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Your story represents the story of all, and has it’s place in the library of forever. We live for moments of joy and ease. The moment your child is born. Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations. The first steps into a vacation you’ve been planning for 6-months. The promotion at work. The new car. The new home. The […]

By: James McGinley
January 31, 2023

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Our days have a habit of blending together. Before we know it, we have more of our life behind us than ahead of us. We wonder what happened and how we could have let it slip by so carelessly. One way to help stop your life from slipping by is to take a look at […]

By: Dr. Steven Farmer
January 24, 2023

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I was walking my dog Sampson in the early hours of the evening recently when I glanced up at the bright spots that were gradually appearing in the sky. I noticed one that was sufficiently bright such that it was clearly visible, and as the veil of darkness gradually shrouded the remaining daylight, it became […]

By: Dr. Steven Farmer
December 27, 2022

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Breath. It’s something you can be aware of or turn over to your autonomic nervous system, which is linked directly into your survival instinct, and your body just . . . well, knows how to breathe. So you don’t have to think about it or put your attention directly on it. It just happens by […]

By: James McGinley
August 22, 2022

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There is probably nothing more mind-numbing than working on a task that is meaningless, boring, or uninspiring. It is the feeling we get when we are sitting in a lengthy and irrelevant meeting and the one we get when we are revising work that was well-done to meet the demands of an uncaring and capricious […]

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