Stop Negative Self-Talk or PTSD. Build Emotional Intelligence and Become Your Own Hero!

SAD is a blog that encourages living with self-awareness, gratitude, and self-empowerment one day at a time; sharing stories, poems & information about overcoming adversity or trauma; building personal power and emotional intelligence. You can and must be your own hero. Call 1-800--273-TALK if you need someone to listen or need immediate advice. Leave me a message if I need to contact you.

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Writing is Choice The Market House in Fayetteville, NC was a slave marketplace, though it was not built for that purpose. Its histor...

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Express yourself; it's a necessity, not an option.

Express yourself; it’s a necessity, not an option. We are emotional beings, so we need to release emotional energy. Self-expression is o...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

What matters most is being part of a group that values and validates us. Humans are motivated by wants and needs. While ou...

Friday, March 12, 2021

Drop a pebble in the water and see what happens...

It is much easier to hold back unkind words than it is to reel them back in once they are out. The following poem speaks for itself regardin...

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Becoming angry is something that can be changed.

Losing ones temper is only a cover-up. Because we don't like to feel vulnerable, we default to what seems a more aggressive emotional...

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

I knew an angel once

I don't have proof, but I know people who do. Angels fly above or walk among us, protecting us, shadowing us until we have sense enou...

Monday, September 7, 2020

Every poem Every poem has its own sense of rhythm and sometimes a clear sense of rhyme. What you anticipate from the onset is often not wh...

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About Me

mdhjohnson: Life is change, and if we are able to accept and adapt, we don't get stuck in a cycle of negative thoughts and actions. Most of us have experienced negative events or survived emotional assaults--automobile accidents, childhood trauma, acts of violence or terror, but some of us developed PTSD or depression while others did not. How well we cope or adjust mostly depends on our emotional competence, which begins to develop in early childhood. But while building emotional competence begins in early childhood, it can be developed at any stage of life. Positive change begins with understanding and accepting who we are and using workable strategies for becoming the best we can be. When it comes to closing the gap between who we are and who we want to be, "patience is a virtue" because positive change happens one positive thought at a time. This blog site offers information, creative works and commentary meant to inspire self-awareness, awareness of others and positive choices in life. Despite negative conditions or circumstances impacting our lives, we all have the capacity to build emotional competence which enables us to experience happiness and achieve success in life.

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