Category Archives: mental health

Most People Don’t Know That My Freedom from Guilt Comes from Being Forgiven

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Steve Simms

If we would do as we are told by our conscience, the mental torment of guilt and shame wouldn’t be able to destabilize our mental health. If we would consistently obey God’s moral voice within us instead of rebellious inner … Continue reading →

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Making My Mind Mind Me

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Steve Simms

I love challenges. If a game (or if life) is too easy I get bored with it. I love the daily challenge of making my mind mind me. My mind is stubborn and wants to do whatever it wants, even … Continue reading →

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Tormenting Thoughts, Feelings, and Desires Bother Me

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Steve Simms

Tormenting thoughts, feelings, and desires bother me. I have to battle them throughout each day. They try to control me from within. They try to make me obey them. They even try to force me to identify myself by their … Continue reading →

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The Concept That Life Is More Than Physical Continually Revitalizes My Mental Health

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Steve Simms

I find the idea that the physical world is all that there is to be quite disconcerting. Without spirituality I don’t see any hope for me or for humanity in general. Without a vision beyond the material a human life … Continue reading →

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The Best “Self-Care” Is to Turn Your Focus Away from Self

Posted on June 22, 2024 by Steve Simms

The more I try to find myself, the more I experience unhappiness. The more I turn my focus away from myself, the happier I am. It’s a paradox. Forgetting about yourself and your problems is a wonderful way to find … Continue reading →

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Failure shows my need for mental boundaries.

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Steve Simms

Trying to resist and overcome the discouragement, depression, and defeat of failure has made me aware of my great need for mental boundaries. It has caused me to train myself to reign in my runaway mind when it panicky gallops … Continue reading →

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I could do less of the things that make a mess.

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Steve Simms

I could do less of a lot of things that make life a mess. Less is often more: The less worry, the more joy. The less anger, the more peace. The less revenge, the more love. The less hatred, the … Continue reading →

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Wild animals within

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Steve Simms

I see wild animals inside my own heart. They are untamed desires, feelings, and thoughts that tormentingly roar within me, badger me, try to deceive me, and call me to self-destruction. Those wild things can quickly be harmful to me … Continue reading →

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Aligning with wisdom

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Steve Simms

When my thoughts, feelings, desires and behaviors are unaligned with wisdom they produce varying amounts of confusion, chaos, and consternation in my life. Therefore, it is important to me to work on aligning my mind, my heart, and my actions … Continue reading →

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Giving up the harmful word

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Steve Simms

I’ve spent my life giving up harmful, tormenting, and unkind words — the bossy kind of words that regularly barge uninvited into the psyche and try to bully and destroy our inner peace. From my earliest memories those intrusive words … Continue reading →

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