How Do I Get Back on Track with Healthy Habits?
Dear Meli, About six years ago, I had a health crisis. In response, I cleaned up my diet. I started exercising. I stopped drinking and smoking weed. Last year, I made it to the five-year remission marker. Ever since then, I’ve been letting things slip. I...
How Can I Handle the Return of My Addiction?
Dear Meli, My drug of choice is food, especially sugar. For many years, I had it under control. And then came 2022. For whatever reason, I found myself back in the food. I don’t attend 12-step meetings, because they never worked for me. I do have a spiritual...
My Spiritual Community Blamed My Friend for Her Cancer
Dear Meli, I have been attending a New Thought center for about three years. Soon after I started attending, I met a friend there I’ll call Tricia. Tricia and I became close friends immediately. She was smart, funny, and sensitive. About a year into our...
How Can I Prioritize Self-Care?
Dear Meli, I’m having some problems with self-care. Actually, I don’t think that I have a problem with self-care, but my husband thinks I do. He worries about me. I’m a therapist and social worker, and I spend a lot of time caring for others. And I...
How Do I Handle Being Relieved by My Spouse’s Death?
Dear Meli, My wife and I were married for forty long years. It was a good marriage for the first couple of decades, but the second half of our marriage was challenging. My wife had numerous challenges with her mental health, one of which was frequent outbursts of...