“Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, oh what a RELIEF it is!”
Do you remember this Alka Seltzer tv commercial from 1976?
“Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is” was an advertizing slogan which won many awards.
What a wonderful and cute promise. Just plop two tablets into a glass of water, drink it and voila! Instant relief! I can’t even tell you if it worked because I never tried it. But ‘Alka Seltzer’ is still in business so I imagine it does to some extent.
The add promises RELIEF and SPEED! Don’t we all want some of that? Read the rest of this entry »
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What are You Looking At?
What do you watch when you are too tired or too depressed to do anything else?
Do you watch stuff that is encouraging, uplifting, and positive?
Or do watch stuff that is negative, insulting, violent, and outrageous?
Do you look at people and images on the TV or in movies that make you envious and even more depressed?
Are you careful about what you look at?
What are you looking at?
Recently on one of my days when I was too tired to participate in life, I was thrilled to find this movie ‘Return to Me’. Have you seen it?
It is delightful. No violence, no sex but a great story. The characters were charming and believable but not so outlandishly gorgeous that you could not identify with them. And it had a happy ending!
These kinds of movies are rare and so when I find one I like to tell everybody about it!
HOW ABOUT YOU? Are you careful about what you watch? Depression is a battle of the mind. Are you feeding your mind good stuff or awful stuff? Are you making your depression worse by what you watch?
I am so glad you dropped by today!
Join me again at ‘Depression Getaway’ and together we will…
…live, care, laugh, share, learn, discover, forgive and recover.
Don’t give up, I’m praying for you!
Wendy Love
What Do Woodpeckers and Machine Guns have in Common?
Oh you may have guessed it already. What do woodpeckers and machine guns have in common? The noise?
Well, if your woodpecker is pecking on the steel eavestroughing on your house, then yes! It is as noisy as a machine gun! And…as fast! Boy do they go fast.
So, as you may have figured out, we have a woodpecker doing just that at our house – pecking on the steel eavestrough. And what time of day? Five o’clock in the morning! Annoying…. Read the rest of this entry »
Happiness Soup
As we finish up my ‘Happiness Therapy’ series I am reminded of yet one more thing that makes me happy – MAKING SOUP!
I am sure there are a lot of you who wouldn’t enjoy such a task but I do! Read the rest of this entry »
Flowers Make Me Happy!
What is Wet and Sparkly and makes me Happy?
Water! Did you already guess that before you saw the picture?
We are doing a ‘Happiness Therapy’ series and I am sharing some stuff that makes me happy.
It is good to know just what makes YOU happy so you can access some of those things for a little ‘happiness therapy’ in order to make some of your very own personal ‘depression getaways’.
Just because you have depression doesn’t mean you can’t get a touch of happiness now and then. I absolutely recommend it!
Water makes me happy. A water view, the sounds of water, getting into the water on a hot summer day, swimming laps in a big indoor pool or getting into a nice hot bath! It’s all good for me!
WHAT ABOUT YOU? Do you enjoy water? What else do you enjoy? Have you done something that makes you happy yet today? What are you waiting for?
I am so glad you dropped by today!
Join me again at ‘Depression Getaway’ and together we will…
…live, care, laugh, share, learn, discover, forgive and recover.
Don’t give up, I’m praying for you!
Wendy Love
Happiness on the Streets
Old houses, small towns, main streets lined with big old trees…. that can put a smile onto my face just about any time.
We spend some time in South Carolina every winter and one town that gives me that happy feeling is Conway. They have an historic district that I just love. Read the rest of this entry »
Happiness at my Front Door
‘Happiness Therapy’ is my topic for awhile.
Just because we have depression doesn’t mean we have to be, or are going to be, SAD ALL THE TIME!
A little happiness sprinkled around can give you a wonderful ‘depression getaway’. Read the rest of this entry »
Happiness Therapy Under My Bed?
Sometimes while sitting in church I can get really inspired – but not necessarily by what the preacher is saying! Let me explain. Yes, I will hear something the preacher is saying, but then that makes me think of something else and then something else, and voila! I get inspired. It is kind of indirect inspiration. Does that make any sense to you? Read the rest of this entry »
My Very Own Personal “Hope Project”
What’s warm, and colorful, and made with love, and free! One of my ‘hope projects’!
Last time I shared David Small’s concept of a ‘hope project’. I loved his idea! He said it should be something you enjoy, have talent for and helpful to someone else.
Depression has made it impossible for me to be ‘out there’ in the world, volunteering, committing to committees, babysitting grandchildren, etc. The list of what I don’t do anymore is long and sometimes I feel kind of worthless.
But I still have a creative side to my little artistic self and need to do SOMETHING! I need to feel useful, creative, and make a contribution of some kind.
So, here is my hope project. Read the rest of this entry »
