AHealthyMentality.com

In April, 2008 my life was almost intolerable.  I was quickly running out of money so I’d taken a low pay job trying to make enough to move away, far away, because my local environment was, at it’s worst, totally hostile.  I didn’t know what else to do then so I turned inward.

I started writing in a notebook.  I wrote out my anger, my despair, my sorrow and my grief at loss of love.  I screamed and cried and shook my fists in the air in anguish at the negative, blaming, horrible person I felt I had become.  I wrote to myself and emailed/called the friends that were listening until one day an email appeared offering me a website and a chance to write for the internet for pay.  A phone call later I bought into the scheme and soon I owned title to “internet real estate”, my own website .  That was a major turning point in my life.

Now I had a website so I was pressed to name it.  I’d studied psychology and worked in a related field for many years and always considered myself to be a positive person so A Healthy Mentality sprang forth opening windows of opportunity to write about any and all of my favorite subjects.  I love the name and all it stands for.  I hope my blogs are worthy of this lofty title.

Almost a month after that first post I had written several more but not yet resolved my own personal problems.  I knew that I would have to make a major adjustment and that meant I needed to move, physically, bag and baggage, to another place.  I chose Florida.

I moved in with a dear friend and started my new life.  I searched for jobs, wrote articles for other websites and went to the nearest beaches to unwind as I continued to post my thoughts and feelings on my site.   As the wind whipped through my hair and the sun tanned my skin I slowly regained my better self.  I met and interacted with new people and was soon smiling again.  I stayed in Florida for one month but then realized that I needed to come home, not only to interview for a great new job but to mend the bridge I’d tried to burn.  I packed my car with essentials and was back in Tulsa two days later.

In closing, I am thankful for the blessings of God, the love of family and friends, and what I’ve learned while writing  ahealthymentality.com .  Soon I’ll write a blog about self talk, how and why to do it and how much it’s helped me.  I’ll continue to live and grow as I talk positively and forthrightly to myself and to any one else that visits here.  I hope that you, the reader will enjoy my writings and take some small but very good part of me into your own life and become a better person too.  Helping others to live happier lives as I continue to become a happier me is my task and the ultimate goal of AHEALTHYMENTALITY.COM.