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Overcoming tragedy of suicide

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Overcoming tragedy of suicide  I know how it feels to lose a person through suicide, it never the easiest experience. I’ve lost two brother's to suicide and it had a big impact on my life. No one knows what it truly feels to go through trauma at a young age of 9 when my youngest brother took his life in 1995, they didn't talk about suicide or even get kids therapy to get through their loss instead my mother didn’t know how to handle it or tell a child the truth. She didn't tell me until I was sixteen which made me struggle with depression. She regrets and now understands suicide. So, I spent years trying to accept my loss instead at the age of 28 my oldest brother took his life by using a gun to his head blowing his brain's. Trust me it was hard. I struggled as my father had a stroke few days before it happened it didn't feel real at all, felt a lot of guilt but we shouldn't be feeling guilty of the person's death as they chose to end their life. So how do w...

The power of habit

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We definitely creatures of habit, whether we like it or not. Even though the inertia of habit's often keeps us in our comfort zone instead of reaching our goal's, habits per say are not all bad. In fact, life would be boring without habits. If all our actions were at the conscious level, we would be effectively paralyzed by the sheer mass of information we would have to process. Would accomplish little if we don't try to have new habits to form regularly. Habit's allows us to perform thousands of tasks and routine's without create mental overload. It is important to have a morning routine in order to have a purpose to wake up to everyday. The question you ask yourself is this: Am I willing to develop good habits or am I content to creating bad ones? No matter how uncomfortable your circumstances are you are a role model for others in your life.  You probably have very strong habits and connections that you take for granted each day. For example, your brain is probab...