Category: Emotional Health
A Young Girl
a young girl watches her mother faint from lack of food not because the fridge is empty but because her mother chooses to leave her belly so and in two years time this girl will exercise in her room and stop eating breakfast and lunch because she is disgusted at Read more
Hands of Mine
I look down and I see these hands of mine that don’t look like they belong to me….weathered and worn, signs of veins that want to speak of their pain from lifting too many heavy bags and subjected to the strains of ex – haustion while wanting to breathe into Read more
Why I Rarely Tell People I Have a Mental Illness
Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain? ―Ruby Wax Subtitle: It would be so much easier to disclose I have a blood disorder. Which I actually do. But unlike a bipolar disorder, it’s not so much of a conversation Read more
Day 218: Cumulonimbus
My daughter’s eyes are swollen and puffy-popped pink with 85% pollen and 15% heartbreak. The boy who has been calling her his for the last year, has decided that she is not his any longer. She is 10. I hug her against me, hold just enough restraint in my sympathy Read more
I’m Stable. Now What? My Radicalization Journey
“I don’t want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.” ―Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook Sometimes I feel like everything there is to be said, has been said about mental illness. Or perhaps I’m just reaching a new level Read more
6 Ways To Find Your Smile
I never write something with the intention of invoking reactions. I write my truth – good, bad, and ugly. When something is on my heart, I have to get it out, whether it’s through writing, public speaking, or a radio interview. My latest article, 6 Steps to Finding Your Real Read more