7 Ways to Cope With Depression Related to Divorce and Single Parenting
Just days after ringing in the New Year together, my husband told me during a phone call he was leaving…
Continue ReadingJust days after ringing in the New Year together, my husband told me during a phone call he was leaving…
Continue ReadingOh, mama. I have such a heart-wrenching number of people in my life who have experienced trials and grief and…
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Continue ReadingI just want to shut if off. Make the constant, nonstop thoughts just pause for one minute. My brain never…
Continue ReadingI’ll always remember the night my first husband informed me that he wanted a divorce. I had moved across the…
Continue ReadingI don't remember a time before anxiety. In first grade, I faked sick more than once to avoid a noisy…
Continue ReadingEssential oils. They're supposed to make you peaceful and calm. They can supposedly cure anything. And they also cost me…
Continue ReadingDear Anxiety, I see you. In the last two years I have gotten to know you on a pretty close…
Continue ReadingMy child has recently become obsessed with Moana. (Yes, I know. We are a little late to the party.) I…
Continue ReadingSometimes I want to scream. Sometimes it is at my son and others it is to the world, "You really…
Continue ReadingThis is the face of postpartum depression: And this: And this: Postpartum anxiety and depression doesn’t always look like you…
Continue ReadingOne of the hardest things about processing childhood sexual trauma, for me, has been the loss of Who I Was…
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