Margaret Trudeau: 'Changing My Mind'

Margaret Trudeau shared her insights on living successfully with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) with a full house at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library.

Her journey to good mental health was a tumultuous one. Her motivation in writing her third book, 'Changing My Mind,' was to give hope, encouragement and to shed some light on the path of other individuals who have bipolar disorder and their families. When one has bipolar disorder, it touches the entire family in a very profound way.

According to one of Margaret's psychologists, when you admit that you have a problem, you are half way on the road to recovery.

Another very important thought that she shared is that, "Denial keeps you from getting the help that you need."

Margaret Trudeau is an inspiring speaker. She is living proof that with God in your life, a solid personal social support network, the willingness to press on and do the hard work, you can survive and grow through any adversity.

November 10, 2010

What does it mean to love?

It's very easy to talk love but what do you when it's time to put love into action?

When it's 3 o'clock in the morning and the baby's crying again, do you pretend that your asleep and wait for your wife to get up to take care of the baby?

When your friend is homeless, do you let them crash at your place until they can get back up on their feet again? Or are you more concerned about what your peeps would think or say? Or are you worried about how you'll get your friend to leave once you let them stay?

When your friend has no food or bus fare, are you willing to surrender the money that you planned to use to pay for your concert tickets or your new outfit?

Are you really a friend (or just saying so)?

When times are tough for your friends, can they count on you? Are you there to support them in every possible way? at the same time, holding them accountable, sensitively, sensibly, respectfully and in love and not becoming codependent.

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."
Proverbs 17:17 KJV