Essays The Gray Robe When I was in my late teens, early 20’s, I got a gray robe for Christmas. It was a gift from my mother and was Guest Author Posted on February 26, 2021
Wellness National Grief Awareness Day As Sweatpants & Coffee’s favorite (/only) hospital chaplain, of course I wanted to write our National Grief Day piece. Emmie Arnold Posted on August 30, 2020
Essays, Mental How Tattoos Tell Our Stories I used to have a bumper sticker—fortunately, never affixed to my car’s bumper—that read, “tattoos: not just for sailors and Jess Grey Posted on July 16, 2019
Mental When Your Trauma Doesn’t Fit the Image of PTSD I’ve run a blog for the last five years about the intersection of my chronic physical and mental illnesses and my hopes of Emmie Arnold Posted on June 27, 2019
Essays, Self Care That’s What She Said | How To Deal With Light When Emerging From Grief It’s hard to have nice things. Really hard. Also, that’s what she said. After I had children and discovered the Kelly Wilson Posted on November 22, 2018
Essays, Life, Self Care Sweatpants & Soul | Revival I was born on thirteen forested acres, in a trailer on the American River Canyon in Northern California. Whenever my parents Guest Author Posted on November 6, 2018
Self Care That’s What She Said | Dumb Lies You Need to Know During Hard Times We tell ourselves dumb lies, especially when times are hard. The voices that live in our heads tell us lies about our value, Kelly Wilson Posted on August 29, 2018
Essays, Self Care Sweatpants & Soul | Fibromyalgia: The Power of Being Seen It was November 2013. I needed to drive from Tennessee to New Jersey (and back) within nine days to get my car inspected at Emmie Arnold Posted on July 19, 2018
Culture, Mental, TV, Movies & Recaps So You Won’t Watch This Controversial Show: Here’s a List of the Good Lessons from the 2nd Season of “13 Reasons Why” A list of important points came up while watching 13 Reasons Why that I believe could spark better conversations than Emmie Arnold Posted on May 25, 2018
Relationships 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. Emmie Arnold Posted on May 25, 2018