Tag: mentalillness
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Celebrate Recovery
65 days ago, I stepped into a familiar setting. It’s an environment that I immersed myself into over 15 years ago. A non-judgmental, unconditionally welcoming space for anyone looking for support during their darkest moments of their lives. On June 16, 2021 – I walked into a local Celebrate Recovery meeting. This week I am…
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Its not just you – Mentally healthy mom
This post is part of a series on sharing individuals stories to help others realize, they are not alone. If you haven’t read the introduction to this series, please start here. This week’s post is from Criselle. When I read through her story, I cried because it resonated so deeply with me. If her story…
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Series: It’s not just you
One of the biggest reasons for creating this blog was to allow others to share their mental health journey, to show them and others’ that their struggles are more common than they assume. I put an email out to people I have spoken personally (at the beginning of the year) and asked them to submit…
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Series: Parenting a child with mental illness – Managing daily life
Welcome back!This is part three of a four part series on parenting kids with mental illness. If you haven’t read my first post, you can catch up here . Being a Mom of teens is no walk in the park. I do not recommend parenting four teen girls at the same time. Now don’t get…
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The battle with my mind
Disclaimer: This is a journal entry that I wrote in the very beginning stages of creating this blog. I am sharing this very raw entry because it is truly what I hear in my mind. While I do still hear these lies, I am learning that I am strong than my thoughts. I am strong…
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Husband’s reaction to mental illness
I joke a lot about how my husband wouldn’t survive if we got a divorce. In my defense, he also jokes about how he isn’t able to function without my help either. While playful banter comes easy to us on a daily basis, mustering up the courage to tell him about my depression felt next…
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Series: Asking for help – Part 2: Resources
Welcome back! This is part two of a four part series, on helping yourself (or someone you know) with a mental crisis. If you haven’t read my first post, you can catch up here. To be quite honest, I have not utilized medical health professionals enough in my own life. Most of the time, I…
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Series: Asking for help – Part: 1 – Why is this so hard?
Listen, I am the last person to ask for help. I would honestly rather take on the entire burden of the task ahead of me rather than asking for help. A perfect example of this is the ways my husband and I decided we would raise our kids- utilizing the grandparents as childcare. We came…
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Moxie and close rank formation
I adore Jen Hatmaker. I’ve been a fan of hers for years. She is a fellow mom of five like me, so she understands the organized chaos that is my life. She is an apologetically scatterbrained, down to earth Christian woman — my kinda friend. Her blog, books, and social medias are filled with so…
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What is mental health
Prior to my diagnoses, I didn’t know anything about mental health. It wasn’t something I had ever had interest in or cared to learn about. If someone I knew talked about their mental illness, I chalked it up to them being weak and thought they should “snap out of it.” Awful, right? It comes as…