Summer Break doesn’t hit home the way it did when I was enrolled in school. It’s basically more of the same, plus the heat and being jealous of everyone’s vacation photos. So, this year for the summer, I tried to take a break from social media or at least spend less of my time making [...]
Category: Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, as the spouse to someone who suffers from mental health illness, this month is an important one to me. Over the last few years, we've learned how to live with these illnesses and take care of our collective & individual mental health, our shalom is connected and when one [...]
Shine a Light on Women’s Health Month
This post contains affiliate links, when you shop through them I earn a small compensation (at no additional cost to you) through which I am able to support this website and my family. May is Women's Health Month, and after another endless winter here in Colorado Springs, I am finally getting outside to enjoy the [...]
Mindfulness | Journaling Practice
I am an avid writer and have kept a journal for yearssss (I have a tub of journals since I've been married). I write when I am angry, tired, scared, happy, and sorrowful. 2020 gave me a lot of opportunities to understand my feelings better. Writing helped me process the trauma of the last 9 [...]
Mindfulness | Learning to Relax
This post contains affiliate links, when you shop through them I earn a small compensation (at no additional cost to you) through which I am able to support this website and my family. What stresses you out? Endless campaign ads on the TV, the ongoing pandemic, work stress, financial stress, your new favorite show you [...]
Mindfulness | May is Mental Health Awareness Month
As if we weren’t already chest deep wading through our emotions on a daily basis, the calendar reminded me that May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental Health Awareness is special to us because my husband has a diagnosed illness. Because we’ve walked through the messy side of mental health for a long time before [...]
Mindfulness | Speaking to Ourselves
If you loved the movie Bambi as much as I did when I was little, then you'll recognize this, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Thumper's momma knew what was up, speaking negatively hurts those around us. But speaking negatively to ourselves only hurts us. While I may have taken [...]
Mindfulness | My Experience with Anxiety
I worry about things I shouldn't. Everyone does this. So this post is for you and for me. There are lots of ways we stress because of our jobs, difficult choices, mean people, and so on. (Mostly it's mean people, but I digress.) Some let go of stress more easily than others, while some can [...]
Mental Health Awareness 2019
May is mental health awareness month, it seems over the last few years mental health has had more conversation in public spaces making it more socially acceptable to talk about. Last year my husband was diagnosed with depression, seriously neglected depression and anxiety. It's taken a long time for him to get into a better [...]
Mental Health Awareness Month | Suicide Prevention
Suicide prevention/awareness month isn't technically until October. But I wanted to address it this month because it so often is the result of untreated mental health issues. Having suicidal thoughts doesn't make someone weak or flawed. It can be a result of many factors. According to NAMI: According to the CDC, each year more than [...]
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