Author: Tara Richardson

Dedication to Medication

posted Friday, November 13, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

I am being completely honest when I say that medications have saved my life before. At times when I was so sick with depression, and suicidal thoughts tempted me every day, the one thing that reliably got me out of this state was medication. Of course I used all of my skills I had learned […]

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I Can Feel You Judge Me…I Don’t Care!

posted Tuesday, October 27, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

Since my last Newsfeed was on squashing social anxiety, I find it fitting that the topic for this Newsfeed is public speaking. We all have mandatory public speaking at some point in our lives. Think back to childhood where preparing speeches and reading aloud to the class was a popular method of torture. But in […]

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Squashing Social Anxiety

posted Monday, September 28, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

I remember when I lost my voice. Not from illness, as you might assume, rather it was due to social anxiety that began mid-way through my childhood. I never knew until recently that what I went through was a form of bullying – I thought it was just girls being girls. But after being told […]

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Defining Sexy

posted Monday, September 21, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

Watch out Justin Timberlake, it’s me who is bringing sexy back! No, no it is not me bringing it back because I have never had it to begin with… People tell me I am attractive, but sexy is not an adjective used to describe me. It could be my inherent awkwardness. The red face from […]

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Getting to “Maybe”

posted Sunday, September 13, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

Maybe. The possibility that you might say “yes” or “no” at any time. The possibility that you might oscillate between “I have a problem” and “I do not have a problem”. Ambivalence is expected and normal in recovery from mental health concerns. So getting to maybe is actually a fundamental turning point. It might be […]

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The Philosophy of Meaning

posted Sunday, August 30, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

I don’t need to be an artist of self-help to know that meaning is important in everyone’s life. Meaning is defined by the dictionary as “full of significance”. (Does that mean my love of shoes is meaningful?) I recently did a self-assessment to see if I had meaning in my life (which I think says […]

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Communication Secrets I Never Thought Of

posted Sunday, August 23, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

…Say “I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten your name” and, if the other person replies “It’s Jane”, you can say “Of course I know it’s Jane, it’s your last name I cannot recall.” ~ (Secrets of Confident Communicators, page 46.) Where has this advice been all my life? Or, at least for my life after undergoing ECT […]

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Blank

posted Wednesday, August 5, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

I have topics, I have ideas that I truly want to discuss but this time, I am what every writer fears- simply, blank. But it’s all okay because being blank doesn’t necessarily mean you have lost all of your creative juices. (And if indeed you have, then all you have to do is check out my […]

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Embracing Loneliness

posted Monday, July 20, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

As I am writing this Newsfeed my mind whispers, “Tara, it’s a Saturday night and you’re Newsfeedging”; as though this is a bad thing because it means I am not social and ultimately, not cool. “Well,” I whisper back, “I am social and I am cool, I’m just accepting that on my Saturday night I […]

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How Daring Are You?

posted Tuesday, June 30, 2015

by: in Mental Health / Self-Help

 Okay, so I picked up the book because it was glittery. (I now know this is an option for MY book, how amazing!) It was glittery and promised me “The Daring Female’s Guide to Ecstatic Living” which is highly appealing to me. (Especially because I don’t associate the word “daring” with myself… I sit in […]

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