Would you stay in captivity if you were free to leave?

#Nelson Mandela #Bitterness #Rent free in your brain #Grudges for a lifetime #12 steps #Moral inventory #Anger #1514 #The Liberation of Saint Peter #Fresco painting by Raphael #The Vatican #Angel #Guards #Unshackled chains #Staying in the cell #Addiction #Set you free #Second chance #Forgiveness #Don’t judge people by their mistakes #Relapse #Help someone #Give something back #Hope #Artist Richard Phillips #Wrongfully imprisoned #Pen pal #Lawsuit #Michigan #Sell paintings #Radical acceptance #Buddhist #Glorify prison #Prison break #Escape from Alcatraz #Orange is the New Black #Shawshank Redemption #Morgan Freeman #Tim Robbins #Money laundering #Warden #Dr. Paul Wood #New Zealand #Drug dealer #Murder #Mental prison #If not now when #Specifics #Mindfulness #Father #Gratefulness #Taking for granted #Living free #Ongoing #Not a problem it’s an opportunity #Victim #Pity #Pity City #What you think about the most #Yin and yang #Trash in your garden #Why do things keep happening to me #Brain will answer questions #Use that to your advantage #Ask effective questions #What did you learn #Counter intuitive #Rational thinking can hold you back #Sometimes be irrational #Naysayers #Caught in a loop #Use music as a tool #Music as a drug #Effects your mood #Original poem Captivity

Is it time to investigate your silent scream?

#Lighthouse #S.O.S. #Save our souls #Screaming on the inside #Stuffing it #Stuff it down #Implosion #Explosion #Black hole #Depression #Anger turned inward #Silent treatment #Child #Teen #Young Adult #Adult #Families #Speak up #Silent generation #Baby Boomers #Generation x #Bullying #Me too movement #Loneliness #Finances #Volcano #Rage #Go nuclear #Domestic violence #Anger management #Acting class #Haircut #Psychodrama #LAPD #Interrogation #Role playing #Communication #Hotlines #Nami #National alliance for the mentally ill #Identify source of silent scream #Warning signs #Isolation #Anhedonia #Zombie #Self destructive #Drugs #Alcohol #Cutting #Burning #Unprotected sex #Anxiety #Painting #Magic Markers #Permanent markers #Art #Crayons #Writing from your place of pain #Writing from your place of peace #Music #The Who #Pete Townshend #Roger Daltrey #Won’t get fooled again #Terry Riley #James Brown #Joe Cocker #The Scream painting #Edvard Munch #Panic disorder #Paris #Mummy #Krakatoa #1883 #1884 #Norway #Nightmare #Ask for help #Feeling normal in all its glory #Gratitude #Meditation #Big picture #Suicide #Behavior change #Lethal means #Guns in the home #Mood changes #Morbid talk #Risky behavior #Substance abuse #Putting yourself down #Call someone #Baby steps #Always keep fighting #Inner peace

Is water deeper than you think?

#We are water #Song by Nashville cast TV show #Percentage of water in the body #Lungs #Skin #Brain #Heart #Sigmund Freud #Iceberg #Freud Id #Rebellious child #Muscles #Kidneys #Bones #Water content #Shock absorber #Religions #Baptism #Taoism #Wave of emotion #The storm will pass #Buddhism #The Great Wave of Kanagawa #Hokusai #Vincent Van Gogh #Tsunami #Wood block art #La mer #Composition by Claude Debussy #Pink Floyd #Emoji #Quicksilver #Ancient Greeks #Chaos #Carl Jung #Architypes #Unconscious #Subconscious #Mind like water #Overreacting #Underreacting #Splash #Pebble #Elephant #Panic #Acting appropriately #Ground state #Stress #Painting #Cleaning the brush #Leonardo da Vinci #Whirlpools #Maelstrom #Go with the flow #Laid back #Meyers Briggs #Actor #Rehearsal #Cold shower #Tony Robbins #Depression #Bubble bath #Lavender #Ice bath #Judgement #Yoko Ono #Family #Boat #Lake #Friendly #Waterfall #W. H. Auden #Benjamin Franklin #Griffith Observatory #James Dean #Breathe #Radical acceptance #Margret Atwood poem