A Gift of Darkness #CopingwithCOVID19
The collective grief of my country has surged for the second time in my adult life. The first time, I was a young adult, in college on September 11, 2001 when terrorists commandeered planes...
Tagged: depression
#EqualAccess Series Guest Post: Equal Access for Those with Mental Illness
This post is part of The Exponent’s #EqualAccess Series. Disabled voices rarely get a chance to speak for themselves, but this blog series seeks to eliminate the stigma that disabled people are less than,...
Making Meditation Work for Me
About 10 years ago, a therapist told me meditation might be helpful for my depression. I have tried it off and on during graduate school, as a chaplain, at periods of life when I...
A Conversation with Myself: Practicing Self-Compassion
“Compassion isn’t some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we’re trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections...
Book Review: Silent Souls Weeping
Around the year 2002, my husband and I attended Sacrament Meeting together in our BYU single’s ward. The visiting speaker that day was from the high council, and he spoke extensively about overcoming depression...
When Depression Returns…
On Monday this week, I began ketamine treatments for treatment-resistant depression. I had heard I would get relief much more quickly than with traditional SSRI’s, so I was hopeful. I wrote this yesterday, feeling...
Redemption in Baking
I served this imperfect cheesecake. It was sweet, silky, and lemony puddle, and I knew I was more than someone who couldn’t get the shape of my cheesecake just right.
Relief Society Lesson Plan: The Joy of Unselfish Service by Cristina B. Franco
I have been reluctant to post this lesson help because I have chosen President Cristina B. Franco’s talk at the last General Conference called, “The Joy of Unselfish Service” and I begin by turning...
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