“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. – Amir” ― Khaled Hosseini | Week 6 | When we take care of ourselves we can do anything. When we don’t take care of ourselves we are unable to […]
The Best Room
“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 […]