Need a little spice in life? Try something new, something different. Excitement is out there waiting for us to discover. Getting in touch with our feelings is a good place to start. We can let our feelings guide us – what feels right, what feels attractive, alluring or appetizing.

When boredom threatens to overtake us learned patterns turn our angst inward, creating a vicious circle of monotony decompensated by unhealthy coping skills. Distress manifests and creates or exacerbates states of mental unwellness, leading to or intensifying negative states of mind like unhappiness.

Learning or improving vital coping skills helps ward off nonconsensual descents into states of darkness or madness and one element of healthy coping is practicing good self care. Good self care involves nourishing our hearts and minds. Helping others is one ingredient, another is creating the possibility of joy for ourselves.

When we feel the suffocating grip of black midnight enclosing we must find joy. Where can we find happiness we might wonder, it can seem so elusive, like trying to hold water in our cupped hands. Find the answer in the drawing below.

Some of us unfortunately have difficulty experiencing pleasure or satisfaction and others can’t seem to be able to actualize contented feelings at all. If this is so, relentless we must be in our pursuit of happiness. A never ending well of plenty exists just beneath the surface. Remembering it’ s there, waiting for us to build the right machinery that can pierce its barriers and grant us access stokes the fires of hope.