Overheard in the Coffee Shop
Content warning: suicide My name is not Alan Smithee. Unlike the Hollywood directors who ran from their projects, I want to attach my name to this post. I just can’t. There [...]
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Breaking Point: Dealing With Postpartum Anxiety
When my daughter turned a month old, I wanted to give her away. Not because I didn’t love her, I love her deeply, but because postpartum depression and anxiety convinced me [...]
Anxiety Blobs Living Their Lives
The Anxiety Blob, Sweatpants & Coffee’s lovable mental health mascot, is a way for people with anxiety, depression, or any other mental health issue, to feel less [...]
17 Relatable Posts About Actually Living with a Mental Illness or Disorder
If you live with a mental health issue, you know the struggle of dealing with an invisible illness. The constant doubt, the guilt, the exhaustion, and frankly, the inability [...]
Anxiety Blob | Anxiety Blog: Jumping Back In
One of the biggest challenges of living with anxiety is figuring out how to re-enter the world after you’ve been in retreat mode. You know that feeling, say, when you’ve [...]
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 [...]
We’re All the Same Soft Animal Inside
Content warning: suicide, death I’m thinking this morning about suicide. Anthony Bourdain was special to a lot of us, and his death feels heavy to me. Two celebrity [...]
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! [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | What Dreams May Come: Where Depression Meets Ambition
“I live between the realms of success and failure. That is my secret. Depression doesn’t run me. That’s where I get work done.” [...]
The Anxiety Blob Journey: the Blob is Back!
My dearest Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, I need to tell you a story. It’s about being vulnerable and examining your fears and how ideas turn into beauty and [...]
