Essays, Mental Personal Essays | Why My Dad Is the Reason I Take Care of Myself First I’m an adult child of a recovered alcoholic. When I was growing up, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with my family. Guest Author Posted on October 13, 2016
Essays, Inspiration, Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | Coping With Trauma Through Creativity “Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure.” – Rumi Two years ago my daughter told her counselor she Guest Author Posted on October 11, 2016
Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | Depression, Pain, and Shades of Blue The silent epidemic of depression affects millions of people and takes dozens of lives everyday, while our culture grapples Guest Author Posted on September 18, 2016
Mental Coping with Depression Through Words on a Screen Alyssa shares how playing a game helped her cope with her depression. Guest Author Posted on September 13, 2016
Essays, Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | Facing A Psychiatric Hospitalization Many of us with severe mental health challenges will end up in a hospital setting at one time or another, and you know what? Guest Author Posted on August 30, 2016
Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | The Painted Tree: A Story of Life, Love, and Depression It was a cold but beautiful May day when my husband and I exchanged vows beneath a canopy of cherry blossoms in Brooklyn. We Guest Author Posted on August 17, 2016
Essays, Mental Personal Essay | I Am Stronger With Bipolar Disorder Than I Ever Was Without It Writer Michael Weinberger discusses living with bipolar disorder and a medical mishap that threw his world into a tailspin. Guest Author Posted on August 14, 2016
Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | I Know This Girl I know this girl. This woman, actually. My heart breaks for her. The things she’s told me—they make me want to throw up. I Guest Author Posted on August 11, 2016
Essays Personal Essay | The Wisdom In Wobbling We need the wobbles and the shakeups in our lives to remind us that these pressures have nothing to do with feeling truly Guest Author Posted on August 3, 2016
Mental Letter of Encouragement to a Friend – I See You A powerful letter reminding us all that we are enough. Jerusha Gray Posted on July 28, 2016