are you HAPPY?? (e.g. "Treating Yourself Kindly"

Never having done this, I will do it now....

here's an awesome blog entry I found by the one and only Kris Vallatton!

"Whether you are young or old, male or female, or introverted or extroverted, you have more conversations with yourself than you have with anyone one else in the world. There was a study completed by a large university that found that the average person hears twelve hundred words a minute of self-talk. The study found that eleven hundred of these words are negative in most people! If you add to that fact that we tend to trust ourselves more than anyone else, what do you think happens when we talk down, punish or talk negatively to our self? I’ll tell you what happens; it destroys our confidence, kills are self-esteem and yields the fruit of depression, hopeless and fear.

Christians should be the happiest people on the planet! Think about it, Jesus prayed, “But now I come to You (Father); and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves” (John 17:13). ... "Read the rest here!

After reading the whole thing, I can tell myself (and my wonderful readers) that I am so proud of myself for using pictures I took myself, instead of googling random people! I love all those grins!

~joy, joy, joy...joey, joey, joey! Happy 1st birthday!

~Dutchess