Blessing for the Undernurtured Child Within
Dear Sister ______, I give you a blessing for the undernurtured child inside. For too long you have clung to the lie that perfectionism would protect you. You let it tear at your self...
Tagged: mental health
Silver Linings
This has been such a strange time. Every person has been affected in various ways. I still wake up feeling like I am in some sort of apocalyptic movie, but I am surprised at...
Cast Away, Together Alone
I am on a capsizing ship but there is no lifeboat, I sink . I clamor to swim and those in the lifeboats tell me that if I just swim hard enough I could...
Three Books and a Quilt, #CopingWithCOVID19
My COVID captivity looks like this: work from home M-F, empty nest, husband retired, quiet house in suburbia, USA. I have time on my hands. I vacillate between apathy and productivity. During the past...
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...
Whiplash. #CopingWithCOVID19
April 2020 – written 2.5 weeks into quarantine By LMA On March 9th, I traveled to Russia to visit one of my closest friends. At the very last minute (the day before I left),...
#EqualAccess Series Guest Post: After All You Can Do
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,...
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...
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