• When You Need To Discuss Sexual Harassment With Your Pre-teen Child

    When You Need To Discuss Sexual Harassment With Your Pre-teen Child

    “Mom, I need to tell you something,” my daughter spoke as I started the car after picking her up from the YMCA yesterday, “but I don’t think you are going to like it.” I love sentences that start this way. I had no idea what was going to come out of her mouth next.  Let’s Read more

  • Why I Do Not Shop Black Friday

    Why I Do Not Shop Black Friday

    Every Thanksgiving I awaken with a huge grin on my face because I know that somewhere outside in my driveway is the large roll of Black Friday ads. I love looking at them. I dive in each year looking at items I would love to receive for the holidays noting a few to put on Read more

  • When You Learn How Important Self-Advocacy Is

    When You Learn How Important Self-Advocacy Is

    In the last twenty years, off and on, with my frenemies, Anxiety & Depression, I have learned quite a bit about living a life with Mental Illness. My first twelve years were in secret, keeping my mouth shut on anything relating to the words melancholy, empty, sad. I was told to hide, told that the Read more

  • I Will Not Hide Anymore: A Letter To The Non-Believer

    I Will Not Hide Anymore: A Letter To The Non-Believer

    To The Non-Believer, If I passed you on the street, would you be able to identify that I am not ‘normal’? Would you cringe and slither away from me?  Would you see me as different, weak, an attention seeker? For years, I stayed hidden because of people like you. Taught to fear my diagnoses. Shh, Read more

  • When You’re More Nervous Than Your Child On The 1st Day Of School

    When You’re More Nervous Than Your Child On The 1st Day Of School

    Crowds of kids gathered with their parents at the bus stop snapping photos of their elated children. Some even took video. I stood with my daughter giving a hug and kiss on her cheek. I did this as support, support she didn’t ask for. Why? Because today was the 1st Day of School, the first Read more

  • It Isn’t All About You: The Selfish Side Of Depression

    It Isn’t All About You: The Selfish Side Of Depression

    I am a selfless person. I always put others needs ahead of my own to the extent that I ignore my body and brain’s signals that I am not well. I want people to be happy… my family, my friends, my coworkers. I want the world to be happy ahead of me. I live to Read more

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