YOU Can Bring Hope To A World With Massive Challenges

There is a reason you are on this planet. Someone needs you. Someone will benefit from what only you can offer. Why Have Hope? Click here. William McRaven, US Navy Admiral, does a magnificent job explaining how doing something as “little” as making our beds every morning prepares us to have hope and then to […]

National Suicide Prevention Month

This month has been the National Suicide Prevention Month. There are a multitude of resources available–for those who feel suicidal and for those caring for them. Please look into these resources. Your life matters and so does the life of the person you are trying to support!   Your life matters. It matters.

When Was The Last Time You Cried?

How often do you cry?  Daily, weekly, once in awhile? One of the side effects I experienced while on Prozac was loosing the ability/desire to cry.  The medication made me pretty numb.  It took a very long time for me to figure out this was a result of the medication.  So when I tapered off […]

Today’s Challenge To Hold The Line

My husband and I have had rental properties for years. So far we have had incredibly great experiences. Today marks a shift in that. One day. One shift. That’s all. We now have a property with a broken contract. We’ve decided to step out of the way. It’s going to cost us thousands of dollars. […]

Write, Burn, and Learn To Destroy Toxicity

I am trying to honor impressions I get about the posts I should write.  And so I share the following as it is happening in real time, right now, today. I have just been reminded of the importance of understanding that challenges are truly a part of our mortal experience.  It is what we think […]

Wherein I Feel Numb

It was a few years into depression that I really began to recognize that I was numb.   Being numb is an interesting place to be.  I have always been a religious person.  I have always had a relationship with my Higher Power.  So when this waned, I was confused–at best.  I wondered if I […]

Burdens vs Loads

The idea is that a load is the day-to-day challenges that occur quite naturally, ie., housework, schoolwork, parenting, connecting with people, what to eat for dinner, laundry, a date, being date-less, work, a flat tire… A burden is the heaviness we carry around because of the consequences of someone else’s choices, a traumatic event that […]

WHAT Are YOU Carrying Around?

Pretty amazing photo, right?  Can you imagine carrying all those packages while riding a bike?   This image also represents energetic imbalances that block us from healing and being truly well! Think of each package in the picture as an energetic imbalance.  One might represent a trapped emotion, another a psychic trauma, another a misalignment…you […]

Words Have Power

Somewhere at about the halfway point in my journey with depression, I realized that I should probably stop referring to the depression as “mine.”  I’m not sure where this idea came from; it just sort of showed up.  I had this strong desire to detach myself from it.  It was probably around this point that […]

To LDS Missionaries and Their Parents

I have been thinking about this topic a great deal because of our daughter’s experience as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I have seen countless posts on social media of mothers reaching out for support from others because their son or daughter is struggling on their mission.  While I do […]