mental health
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I do not live or work in Hollywood. Nothing about my life is dependent on the most recognizable product of Hollywood. But I am a consumer of that product, although I have decreased that usage in recent months, mostly because of the pointedly painful bias against women. In both product and production. This is not…
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I was a preteen hanging out with two of my older sisters. We were just sitting around the table talking, laughing, munching on chips and drinking soda. Absolutely nothing atypical for a Saturday afternoon. We could occasionally hear our Mom talking on the phone in her room, or watching TV or whatever else a single…
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Abject fear is hard for a grown person to process and put into a life affirming perspective. Imagine a child trying to do it. A child without the mental facilities to understand that what made them afraid was not their fault. Children only know how to internalize. That’s why having them explain their emotions is…
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Self-care isn’t about a bubble bath in a pristine bathroom and using the right skin care products. Self-care isn’t even knowing your self-worth. Self-care is understanding you have self-worth. It’s the understanding that you are worthy of your own time and energy, even if that time and energy is in short supply. Especially if they…
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My family is comprised of different species. I am bound to humans, canines, felines, and reptiles. We connect in different ways at different levels, but they are all seen as deserving of care, consideration, and respect. They hold their own place in the world, especially in my world. With my humans, I share a rocky…
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I’m good with words but there are times when I don’t know what to say. Or maybe how to say it. In those times, my words invariably come out wrong. But I just keep going. Shutting up would probably be the wise choice, but I always think I can bring it back around and make…
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March 2020 seems like a lifetime ago. It also seems like just yesterday. I think its because everything got put on hold until we could all get back to normal, but nothing stayed the same. We moved through the pandemic in a nonlinear path. Stops and starts, backward and forward, up and down, and in…
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“Gender is a fact.” No. It is not. How ironic that people who spend a good deal of their life striving for a certain amount of notoriety get upset when they make controversial statements that create controversy. They want to be heard until they say something that should have been left unsaid. They want our…
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The path toward mental health is strickly self defined. There are many roads to travel down, many tools to find. Some roads turn out to be dead ends , while some are so twisting and turning it feels like you never get anywhere. Some roads lead you back to where you were, sometimes time and…
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