Mornings with Bee

Our brain is wired with neurons which lead to action potentials, like a highway. You get on the onramp or the thought and the highway takes you to the destination or the action. So to say the least every time you experience something there are neurons being fired rapidly through your body. I read that "Smiling releases endorphins and make you feel better, even if it is faked." Action potentials sent to make yourself smile are sending back other action potentials to make yourself feel better. So I tried it. I had a pretty rough day this past weekend and I thought to myself, it is worth a shot. What I thought would just be a silly game, turned into a mindful exercise of being aware of happiness through a smile. I forced myself to smile from my house all the way to work, about a 20 mile drive and with traffic about 40 minutes. It worked! It definitely made me feel so much better. I started to just focus on what was current, where I was right now. I was aware of the muscles in ...

It is the day after the biggest game of the year in football, at least it is to some regards. It just so happens to be the day after my 25th birthday. For some time, I have been in a funk, I have been figuring out what is next, I have been swallowed in my "Quarter of a Life Crisis." One of the things I have been working through is RECOVERY. The process of sobriety, recovery. Through both the process of personal recovery, as well as educational endeavors I have come across same concept over and over and over again. It is that an addict is never fully recovered, they are always recovering. Recovering is the verb of recover which means to return to a normal state of mind, health, and strength. Makes sense then that the addict is recovering and never recovered.     I was reminded of the recovering process again when I was looking around Russell Wilson's website. He said on his page that he is a "recovering bully" . Wow! Thank you Russell for sharing this story, an...