Originally published on Elephant Journal on 9/4/2021.

Today I am overwhelmed with a flood of emotions. You see, 27 years ago my son was born brain dead because I was in full-on eclamptic...

Monday I began the Free 21 Day Meditation with Oprah and Deepak that was all over the internet.  Thus far, it has been great, and I would...

How many of us truly understand the final dance scene in Silver Linings Playbook? How many of us realize that it is an interpretation of...

If you asked me three months ago if I could be still with myself, the answer would have been a strong, harsh no.  Three months ago today...

Today I decided to take a trip down memory lane in a self torturing kind of way.   Why, you ask? I have absolutely no idea, but I did it....

I need some help, desperately! I have been on Seroquel for over 1 month now and I am suffering from severe writer’s block, so I thought...

Acceptance in human psychology is a person’s assent to the reality of a situation, recognizing a process or condition (often a negative...

Tonight was my first “official” night out amongst tons of people I know. My husband and I went out to support our school’s local PTO...

Triggers, triggers, everywhere. Triggers, triggers, should I care? On Monday at my outpatient program, we had a class called...

Tomorrow is my first full day home alone since returning from the hospital and I am a nervous wreck. I am still far from well, and...

Everyone has a story to tell. I met a gentleman while I was in the hospital that heard me talking about my blog, and he approached me to...

I have to say over the past two months, I came to the realization that some people really, really love to fart, and some even more than...

I figured I would share some of the poetry I wrote while I was hospitalized. It certainly captures the velocity at which my moods were...

During one of our journaling groups, I was asked to write about what I have gotten thus far from Princeton House (the hospital in which I...

The hospital called and they have a bed. We are off and I am scared, but here’s to the beginning of the journey to find me again....

I came to the realization today that I can no longer try to battle this disease alone. After dropping my children off at school, I felt...

You have robbed me of my smile, not only the external one, but the internal one as well. I hate you almost as much as I hate myself right...

Where does one begin to forgive oneself? How does one undo the wrongs one has committed and erase the pain one has inflicted on those one...

I met a good friend of mine for breakfast this morning. She is well aware of my recent struggles, so much so that she actually brought me...