Summed up in one word, this week is 'crap'!
Mental Health ~ Are You Ready?
The tragedy is not about mental illness.The tragedy is our general misunderstanding of our own ability to respond. The tragedy lies in our lost hope and dreams for a future that we still navigate.
Authentic Truths- Count Your Blessings?
Navigating through the world is rough, we need hope and the courage to let go when it is beyond our reach.
Mental Health ~ Bipolar With a Side of Anxiety
Imagine my surprise in learning it was common for bipolar and anxiety to affect individuals simultaneously. However, they forgot to explain this fact until I collapsed in the bank. Whoops!
Mental Health ~ The Journal, #22
My ultimate victory didn't come from wielding swords. No, my victory came through complete surrender.
Their Addiction-My Journey-Grief in Addiction
Pain in addiction.
Five Minute Friday- “I never left you.”
I moved through time with the reminder of his evil touch. The fear and anger of unwanted touch and ugly memories so triggering, I chose to hold them deep in my silent self. I sauntered as a woman scorned to one therapist after another, always sharing just enough but never close to all.
Lost & Found- Retreat.
Is the battle lost? Lost and found came in the wake of the reality that my ‘baby’ was approaching 18 and my time as a certain type of mother was ending. He is now 20, and doing well. I am now even more lost than found; I wonder if there will come a day that …
Mental Health ~ The Journal, #21
..I sat recovering from sets of circumstances that knocked me off my balance, and laughed as I took a free fall into the dark caverns of defeat. That piece of depression pisses me off- the laughter I hear as I crash. I hate that laughter, so the comeback is typically my game.
Five Minute Friday- A Soldier’s Cry
One lonesome soldier knew..


