You know when I was in nursing school I failed one of my first exams in one of my first nursing courses and I failed it by two measly questions. After the test review, the instructor pulled me aside to personally point out that I wasn’t nurse material and that I should just go ahead…
Continue reading ➞ You’ve Got School
Therapy day. Something that we don’t talk about often is how hard therapy is because God, it can be hard. Working through trauma will gut you and challenge you and leave you questioning if healing is not just possible but if it is actually worth it. I always liken therapy days to peeling the layers…
I’ve never been good at absolutes like getting on my mat every morning. I can usually talk myself out of things that make me feel better by explaining them away as a need for rest. I’m not gonna lie, it’s been difficult to discern whether I need rest or if my depression is keeping me…
Continue reading ➞ Proactive Prevention
I get skiddish when I meet new people and then we become Facebook friends -mostly because I go and friend ‘em on Facebook. I suppose that makes me a bit of a massichist but let’s put a pin in that for now. I also find myself uncomfortable when my co-existing online and real life friends…
Continue reading ➞ No Shame in My Depression Game
My goal in my day to day has always been to have nothing to do which is different than doing nothing and if you get that then you get me. Anyway. In order to achieve my daily goal I have always rushed through my to-do’s to get to the glorious nothing to do and let…
Continue reading ➞ Take Up Time
Depression is a beast. A monster. Maybe even a demon. It is ruthless and relentless and I think it might be evil. It is brain numbing and soul crushing and life sucking. It taints the very thing we need to release ourselves from its grasp: our mind. And it destroys the one thing it takes…
Continue reading ➞ Managing Mantras
I would say over the last several years that there has been a lot of talk about a mental health crisis. Especially among our teens. I have heard it from therapists and teachers and parents. I have even said it myself. But I’ve been thinking: what if it’s not a crisis so much as an unraveling. What…
Continue reading ➞ Right Kind of Hard
Look, I know there’s a lot of good in the world. I know there are helpers and healers and there is magic in the mundane and joy for the taking but also I can’t shake the feeling that there’s so much heavy and the heavy doesn’t seem to be lifting. In fact, I think it’s…
Announcing a social media departure may be one of the biggest faux pas a millennial can commit but I’m a solid-born-in-1984-millennial and I don’t know how to do things without over explaining myself so here we are. It’s no secret that online apps have offered me more anxiety than education and it’s also no secret…
Continue reading ➞ Shut It Down
There’s a chapter in my book detailing my love affair with cigarettes (yes, that’s a shameless book plug but trust I have a point) and if I’m being honest, it is a battle that comes up quite often. And it comes up most often in times of stress and if there is one thing I…
Continue reading ➞ Easy Does It
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