When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

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You can calm anxiety!

Articles in this category give readers strategies to calm anxiety. Strategies include music and art therapy to anger management to avoiding toxic people and many more. These posts include how to sleep well at night, reduce stress, have happy days, and others.  Its purpose is to enable readers to soar like eagles above life’s storms and calm their anxiety.

BJ’ s vision is insightful and motivating. Her vision brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.  These articles will enable and inspire you to calm anxiety.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives.

Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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Encouraging you to give yourself the gift of Serenity on Near a River.

Happy New Year 2018!  Here is a Serenity Prayer for everyone for every day of the New Year! Grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The motivation to change the things I can, And the strength Read more…


Encouraging you to overcome depression and anxiety on near a river.

Five activities that help me cope with depression and anxiety. I have endured depression and anxiety for years.  I seldom take medication to calm down.  Certain activities help me calm down, relax, and feel well again. Here are the activities Read more…


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Three healthy thinking strategies you can use to control negative thoughts and anxiety.  Negative thoughts trigger anxiety.   To prevent this from happening, practice healthy thinking. Here are three ways to practice healthy thinking. Recover from downer thoughts.  Figure out which Read more…


Encouraging you to find a healthy environment on near a river.

How to  calm anxiety by calming your environment. Recently I had a day of depression and anxiety.  I blamed my depression and anxiety on loss of control caused by deaths of two people I love and on being stuck in Read more…


Help a child cope with a traumatic event. Children certainly experience events on their own level just as acutely as adults do. Because they still lack the coping mechanisms and perspective that only life experience brings, an event that may Read more…


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You are special. Remember that.     You are special. You may not understand how much you mean to everyone around you. Everyone’s day is happier. Just because you are here.  What you say matters. It touches the hearts of everyone around Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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