The Fear with No Name
No one tells you growing up that if you don't deal with your emotions, they will come back to bite you in the ass. My emotions did just that exact thing to me.
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Good Job, Baby Girl
We can be so quick to blame them when sometimes (not every time), it truly is our own judgments that are getting in the way of our happiness. I could have held on to that first moment of disgust and anger, but I chose another way. I chose to look at things from a different perspective.
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Mental Health Resources
Facilities Local to Richmond, VA Outpatient Facilities FIG TREE THERAPY They are a Christian-based therapy office that specializes in EMDR. (Read my story with EMDR here.) You can totally opt out of any religious discussion. They are not pushy about it at all, but if you want to include that in your therapy, you can. […]
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Lessons Learned from Dad
What I am now starting to realize is that I was so stuck on this concept of finding the "artist" inside of me that I was missing it all together. I had this whole illusion of art being something tangible that you can hold or hang on a wall. That was what I understood to be "art."
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Sex-ducation
If you conform to gender roles, you will be happy. That's what they said. That's what society would instill in us to be "right" and "good." That's what advertisers would sell. Women conformed to these rules of thought, and so did men.
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WTF is Mindfulness? And How Can I Get Some?
Have you ever just sat in that place between sleep and awake? Sometimes I feel euphoric. Sometimes I feel so tired physically that I can’t open my eyes, but my brain starts firing thoughts like an old arcade shooter game. Pew! Pew! Pew! I can’t make it stop. Meanwhile my husband can literally watch paint […]
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Fear of the Other Side of the Mountain
Do you remember when you were a kid, and you would lay in your backyard while the clouds rolled by? You would stare up at the sky and try to figure out what shape the cloud was forming. Look it's a happy face! That one looks like a mouse! Life was so easy, and relaxing.
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Travelling with Anxiety
Fun Fact: When you are tired, it's harder to combat. You just don't have enough energy. Rest is essential for the anxious mind.
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Black Sheep, Book Club & Baby Steps
Spending most days by myself gives me a lot of time to think and learn about myself. I have been privileged (I chose that word on purpose.) with the opportunity to really go deep within myself and figure out who I am and what I want to do.
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The Spark that Propelled Me into a New Direction
I now have a flame tattoo on my ankle to remind me that if I can get through that, than I can get through anything. And that is POWERFUL.
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