For the last year depression and anxiety have been a blanket over me that needed constant tending. Funny enough they kept me very busy from self analysis and self improvement. Now that they are both down to more manageable levels I am left with the result. That being that I had issues that were making me down in the first place and now they have ( Read more... )

So I decided to start writing a novel. Rewind 20 some years ago. When I was transitioning from middle school to highschool I was pretty unhappy. I think it was really because growing up is hard and I felt isolated. You get to this point where you are becoming an adult but you can not yet do adult things yet and I felt trapped by that. So I wrote. I ( Read more... )

I know everyone experiences motherhood differently. I can't even imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city with your entire extended family ( Read more... )

When I was young, like most people I didn't understand love. I had a very constructed idea of what it actually was. It was loosely based on my family and films and cartoons and books. It was a distorted mess far from the truth of what it actually is ( Read more... )

This happened many weeks ago, but I wanted to post about it here ( Read more... )

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So a lovely friend of mine has gotten me a gift certificate to one of those sensory deprivation tank places. I mentioned I was curious about it and she had done it. We made jokes about it because it reminded me of Stranger Things and the tank Eleven goes in where she meets the Demogorgon. I was likening the demogorgon to my anxiety. I was initially ( Read more... )

Last few days have been a bit rough. So I thought I would post this here because humor is everything.


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I have been dealing with my anxiety very well in the past week. I feel great. Will I need to keep practicing on working with it? Yes. But for now I will enjoy the good days, and I will appreciate the days I struggle ( Read more... )

So a long time ago my therapist said that having a mantra can help you when you are feeling anxious or stressed or even depressed. Every time I meditate something from Dune would pop into my head, but as it has been so long since I read it I couldn't remember it with perfect clarity. So a few days ago I finally remembered to go grab my copy of the ( Read more... )