Mental Health

In general, the holidays are a difficult time for those who are grieving. Infertility is a different type of grief, because you're grieving for something you've never had. It is a constant loop of grief every month. During Christmas,...

The year 2020 has been hard; like unprecedentedly hard. Despite an impressive communal effort to constantly seek the bright side, this dumpster fire of a year has definitely had more valleys than peaks. If you're like me, you might periodically...

September is Suicide Awareness month. Unfortunately this is a subject I have dealt with this on more than one occasion. Losing someone is never easy. Losing someone who takes their own life can be even harder. I have dealt with...

As we watched the weather channel, running on an endless loop in our living room, I could see my husband getting more and more tense. We were waiting for the storm, and we were in for a long night....

For whoever needs to hear this, WAKE UP! Wherever you are in life, be present. Be intentional. Be authentic and truthful. Just BE you. Freshly plowed soil. That's where I am at this point in my life. Like the soil...

“When people tell you who they are,” Maya Angelou famously advised, “believe them.”  You are the steward of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for, reveal a great...

Dear Covid,So many things happening or potentially happening that I was not prepared for.Am I really going to have to stay in the house for the rest of the my life? Like really, no more restaurants, no Target. No browsing...

I have a monster that I cannot control. Rage. You likely wouldn’t guess that I have a very mean, very aggressive side. My bubbly personality and constant quest for positivity serve to hide the monster within.  I do not fit your typical...

What if your anxiety wasn’t something to figure out or fix? What if it was… just anxiety?  I hear you. I know it’s not just anxiety. I know the pain and paralysis of a spinning mind and panicked body well....

I’m just going to say it – it’s OK to feel overwhelmed and be unproductive. You don’t have to have it together all the time. Do you remember that little homeschool schedule that was floating around the internet a week...