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  By: Megan Muñoz IMH Comparison can be a sticky topic because not all comparison has an adverse effect on us. There are lighter sides to comparison when it impacts us positively. Sometimes comparing our story with others can motivate us to live more fully in our own. When we read about or watch someone move into a challenge and navigate their way through difficulties with perseverance, it can help us find the courage to face our own fears. Comparison can also help us put our own life in perspective. Sometimes comparison can be helpful to evaluate our situation with more clarity and objectivity when we get stuck inside our own thoughts, emotions and environment for too long. But there is a darker side to comparison that keeps us stuck and unable to move forward in our life. The darker side of comparison is where shame lives.  It sits just out of consciousness, shrouded in the shadows, making it difficult to recognize. When this side of comparison is activel...

By: Megan Muñoz IMH What do you think of when you think about forgiveness? The general concept of forgiveness is known somewhat by everyone. Most people have scratched the surface of it through stories, teachings or literature, but not many have gone deeper to understand and apply the healing it has to offer. Still fewer have actually walked the long and difficult path of forgiveness. Of those who have, only small fragments of what it cost to get to the end of it are shared. So what are some of the truths about forgiveness that can help us develop a healthy understanding of its purpose in our lives and relationships? Forgiveness sets YOU free . Many people think that forgiveness is primarily for the benefit of the person who needs to be forgiven, but the process of working towards forgiveness has a deeper effect on the forgiver. While forgiveness can work healing in the life of the offender, its primary task is to work towards healing in the heart ...

By: Megan Brewer IMH Burnout. You’ve probably heard the word before. Maybe you read about it once in an article or know someone affected by it. Perhaps you have experienced it yourself or are afraid of heading towards it if something doesn’t change soon. Most likely, you are probably thinking burnout will never happen to you. I have a feeling that everyone who has burnout experience was thinking the same thing until it happened. We tend to talk about burnout as if it is something that happens suddenly and without warning. But burnout is actually an accumulation of stress that can manifest in a variety of places in your life. When your body and brain are exposed to long seasons of stress without the chance to rest and return to a state of neutrality, stress stores up until your system can no longer handle the pressure. When this happens over a prolonged period of time, it burns out your system’s ability to continue functioning. So what makes it so easy for burnout...

By: Megan Muñoz IMH Some find it difficult to understand the struggle many have with suicidal thoughts. Part of this struggle has to do with how we sometimes categorize things we don’t understand. Suicidal thoughts and suicide are often thought of in black and white terms. For example: either someone is terribly depressed and suicidal or the thought has never entered their mind. But suicide and suicidal thoughts have a much longer and broader spectrum than we often realize. There is a long and difficult road of gray hues that fill in the gap between the starting point of never having had a suicidal thought and the end point where the act of suicide takes place. We are not born with suicidal thoughts. However, we are born with the capacity to become overwhelmed by stress, adversity and pain that can threaten our ability to cope and lead towards thoughts of suicide as a solution. No one is completely exempt from the possibility of developing suicidal thoughts, however, ...