Making Us Laugh This Week | 17 Memes About the Mental Health Struggle
If you’re in the mental health struggle, you know that sometimes you have to laugh so you don’t cry. These memes are so relatable, we had to chuckle. (But we [...]
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Notes from Nanea | How Are You Taking Care of Yourself?
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, When I was a small child, I was no less full of anxiety than I am now, but I didn’t know how to put words around it. I just moved [...]
Notes from Nanea | Passing Through Shadows
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, As I write this, we’re heading into fall. I feel a change in the beat of my blood, in my mouth, in my dreams, and it matches the [...]
5 Helpful Apps for People With Anxiety Disorder
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and addiction therapist, I work individually with children, adults and those suffering from all forms of substance abuse. As a [...]
Notes from Nanea | Random Acts of Self-Care
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, Everything works better if maintained regularly, especially you – an organic expression of energy, consciousness, and, in my case, [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | The Art of Repairing Broken Things
On my Tumblr, I have a question box. A few years ago, I received this question: “Should i commit suicide? I honestly dont think i can make it through another day [...]
Personal Essays | Burn the Pages & Keep Going
The past teaches us important lessons about where we do and do not want to go, but we also need to let go. [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | Happy Birthday Lady Gaga
We could give you a million reasons to celebrate Lady Gaga today, on her 32nd birthday. Maybe we’d start with her songwriting career, which took off before her work as a [...]
That’s What She Said | Is It Better to Be Skinny or Sane?
My struggles with my weight are sure to surprise nobody. I am a 43-year-old mom of two teen boys who can eat whatever they want; in fact, they eat no less than six times a [...]
Notes from Nanea | The Unbearable Blobbiness of Being
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, These are anxious times. Now, more than ever before, people are talking openly about living with anxiety. Of course we’re anxious! [...]
