mental health
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My parents were not raised in traditional American households. My father was second generation from an eastern European country. His first language was the language of his parents. My mother was an immigrant from an Asian nation. She came to America very much couched in the ways of her people. Us, their children, were raised…
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I read somewhere that emotional trauma settles in the pelvis. In February of 2024, I was involved in a workplace accident that resulted in multiple pelvis fractures. The event that caused the accident was a collapse of a metal pole that attached a gate to a solid fence. A small section of pipe that no…
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When I was a child, I suffered from migraines and chronic headaches. I can still remember my first migraine. I was about 7 and we had had hamburgers for dinner. McDonalds, back when all they had to offered were hamburgers, cheeseburgers and fries. Then, the same as now, I preferred hamburgers to cheeseburgers. I had…
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In August of 2024, I was emotionally adrift. 2023 was a year of loss. Death had taken four souls from my life that were primary cornerstones to my emotional make up. Four beings who were some of the builders of my everyday existence. In the nine months between March and November, my world shook with…
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I had a soulmate. She passed away nearly a year ago. But because our connection was through our souls, I still have her. And, in many ways like I was never allowed to have her before. I was truly despondent over her death. My heart was set adrift in a way I had never experienced.…
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So I have this job. Its not a bad job. I like the work and it pays me slightly more than enough to pay my bills. Though the people I work with aren’t “my” people, we all recognize we are all working toward the same goal. And for the most part we stay on task.…
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In March of 2019, I got a new job. I was desperately unhappy in the job I had at the time, so I just started looking for a new one in February. As with any job that is really worth having, the process from submitting the application to receiving an offer letter was a long…
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My life, like all lives, has been a circuitous road to wherever it may be going. Sometimes there was a somewhat thought out plan about my next move, but mostly I learned how go with the flow. Although flow is a misidentifier. More like I learned how to absorb the bumps and change course. My…
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2023 has been a difficult year. In time, I will look back on this year with the pain of loss, the emptiness of longing and the darkness of heartbreak. Bad times befall every year of life, but those times are usually tempered with the good. Not 2023. I was born the sixth of seven children,…
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