May: Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and mental illnesses are common and treatable. So much of what we...
So I am Empath...What do I do with it?
Empath has now become a popular buzz word that people use but when I ask people I work with what it means they give me varying...
The Function of Dysfunction
How many times have I said to myself you need to let that go? I have told myself, actually berated myself is probably the more accurate...
When Everything Becomes Too Much
Imagine this.. You’re in school, the day of a big presentation. You’ve watched your classmates give their presentations perfectly, no...
The Magic of Happy
Happy is a feeling not a state of being. I am not someone who preaches stay positive all the time or be grateful for a shit storm,...
Growing Up With Weird
Mental illness. I am finding myself stuck on this first sentence as I go to write about something that has impacted my whole life, a...
Recovery: The Musical
Recovery Through Music and Poetry Loss is something everyone will go through in many different forms. The loss of a friend, family...
Accepting Acceptance
There have probably been dozens maybe hundreds of things I have read on Acceptance and they have all been fabulous, some even quotable,...
Grounding In
Why is grounding important? Valid question but as I went to answer I thought, back-up. I should probably start by defining it. I have...
Eating The Monster
Recovery was not my first choice. Not in the beginning. I didn't choose the disease either but I was going to be damned if every choice...