“My “best” room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house. Thither in summer days, when distinguished guests came, I took them, and a priceless domestic swept the floor and dusted the furniture and kept the things in order.” -Henry David […]
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 […]
The Bucket List
How can you possibly find your way if you don’t have a purpose for your direction? From this birthed My Bucket List only three months ago. We also made one for our family as well. Those in italics have been done. I will continue to add as well as our purpose and lives are constantly […]
Music Monday : She Talks To Angels
I think all women are on a similar journey. At some point in our life we have to face the demons in our closet. No woman escapes childhood without a scar. We all have a scar we can talk about. We hide that scar with great amounts of energy. Part of that scar is not […]