Postpartum Depression
I have five children. I had them in seven years. There were many days and nights, months and years, of “things being gloriously out of balance” as my husband would say! I don’t recall ever feeling anything more than the “baby blues” with my first four children. According to the Mayo Clinic (2012), symptoms of […]
Why Bottling It Up Hurts
In Mind Battles, I shared a small portion of a major piece of the puzzle that fundamentally brought me out of depression. I hope you took seriously the invitation to write down one battle that is raging in your mind. If you did not, I invite you to do so now. You see, the cells […]
Mind Battles
Here is an excerpt from a talk I gave several months ago: “15 years ago I began to exhibit signs of clinical depression. I remember wondering what was wrong with me. I had a great marriage, great children, believed in God, and had everything that I wanted. Yet I felt sad to say the […]
Do You Feel Broken Or Irreparable?
My husband and I and our children created a new home and moved into it during May (2014). Those of you who have ever accomplished such a feat know that it requires a great deal of patience, fortitude, planning, and relying on the know-how of others and that they will follow through and be honest […]
Is There Something Between You And Moving Forward?
May 2011 There is an image in my mind and a feeling in my heart. It doesn’t go away. I am standing and in front of me is a chasm. It isn’t very wide–only about 4″-5″. I could easily step over it and move forward but something is holding me back. I can’t place what […]
Are You Enduring?
Almost a year ago I attended a class where the presenter was a woman who struggles mightily with depression. It hit her full force many years into her marriage. She told about times where it was so bad that she had to be admitted to psychiatric care at the local hospital. She was speaking […]
Hold the Line
Yesterday I was asked a very good question by someone I have been coaching through her anxieties and fears. She said that she has made incredible headway in overcoming some of her once-debilitating fears. In fact, the difference is so profound that a recent experience that she and her husband had would have put their relationship […]
It’s Just a Chemical Deficiency
I had listened to the general ideas behind depression during the first ten years of battling it. I heard, “It’s incurable…it’s a chemical deficiency…embrace it just like you would if you had cancer…it’s not going to go away…” My personal favorite was that it was a chemical deficiency. This meant that I didn’t have […]
Just In Case You Think You Are Alone
I woke up this morning with this post on my mind. I have been writing this blog for a mere 2.5 months. Readership is now in the thousands. Most of you are silent readers. Some of you have said something to me and encouraged me to keep posting. And I will…because depression is not […]
Overwhelm and My To-Do List
I wrote a post in 2014 about overwhelm that holds true today. This is what I said: I’ve learned a lot in the past three years about obliterating anxiety in my life…about not having it enter into the picture at all or at the very least, how to be resilient in the face of it. […]
