If we stop and take the time to inventory our lives, often we can identify certain reactions, moods, and mindsets that make our life unhappy. Resentments, anxiety, self-doubt, anger, irritability, and depression may make up some of that inventory. It is important to recognize these "states", and not try to escape them through distraction, addiction, risky behaviors, etc., but rather accept them as a part of who and where we are right now in our lives and turn our awareness to