“I will go in this way and find my own way out.” -Dave Matthews
The Best Room
I call 2016 the lost year. I don’t remember much of it as if my brain wanted to repress the pain I was having to work through. The details have disappeared. It was painful – I do remember the pain — mainly from stories people share with me and the reading of my journals. Emotional […]
Virginia
Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl with the world at her fingertips. She laughed and sang and the whole world watched. She was strong and intelligent and her light beamed. But slowly she let the dark world take hold and fell into a life she did not want. She was paralyzed by […]
Top 5 Things Never to Say to a Person with a Mental Illness
1. Bipolar can be cured. Rub this oil on you. Don’t eat gluten. Pray. I have yet to have a doctor to tell me it can be cured and yet to read anything legitimate that gives me hope that it can be cured. I’ve accepted I will live with it but how I treat it […]
The Love U Project | Self Care
| Week 6 | Self care is very important in loving yourself. I’m so guilty of not taking care of my own self at times. As moms we are all busy juggling and shuffling through it all. Who has time for a pedi/mani? Who has time for a massage? Who has time to have a […]
The Love U Project | Gratitude
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson | Week 5 | Showing gratitude grows joy and happiness. By counting your blessings you increases your capacity for love, forgiveness, joy, purpose and all the other positives we want in our lives. This weeks project is to count your blessings […]
Finding Purpose
I asked myself many times over: Why did my dad die so young when his greatest loves were only babies? He never got to know them. That’s not fair. It took me three years to begin to somewhat grasp and understand the reasons behind my father’s early departure. Although now he is not with me […]
The Love U Project | Gratitude
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward | Week 4 | Buy a box of thank you cards. Divide the box in half. In one half you will write cards to friends and show gratitude to them. Thank them for a kind […]
Guest Blogger: Carla
Post Partum Depression It washed over me less than 24 hours after giving birth to my first child. I didn’t know what it was at first. The pain meds, the exhaustion, how things hadn’t gone as planned. All I knew is that I felt a suffocating blanket being laid on top of me…something tightening around […]
Music Monday: Brain Damage
The lunatic is in my head The lunatic is in my head You raise the blade, You make the change You rearrange me ’til I’m sane You lock the door And throw away the key There’s someone in my head but it’s not me -Pink Floyd. “Brain Damage” There are two women that live inside […]