It seems the closer I got to 30, the more everything started to feel like a “rat race.” The dating and marrying scene. Having babies. Jobs. Education. Everybody is ahead of you and the people …
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How do you get out of the rat race?
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30 Going on 13.
I can’t get out of my own head when I want to write sometimes. The teacher’s pet in me feels this compulsive need to appeal to somebody else, to sound smarter than I am, to …
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Medications for mental illness are a preferable disadvantage to a lack thereof.
I saw this post at the top of my reader page from MyLoudWhispersofHope and although I was planning to write something else, the end of her post had some questions that I thought were thought-provoking …
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Other people build the case against you and you award the verdict.
It’s amazing what the right people speaking to you in the wrong way will do to shift how you not only view yourself but function. I’ve been in a job where people talk to me …
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The Law of Attraction: why do some people tend to attract creeps and bullies?
Sometimes I wonder if experiencing trauma for extended periods, usually at the hands of those responsible for your care from a young age, has this gradual and invisible branding process. If your jugular, the back …
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Having a child does not make you a parent or your child obligated to involve you in her life.
*This is a draft I wrote a while ago so the comments about the state of the family are likely dated. I’ll be honest, I have about as much interest in Meghan Markle as I …
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Suicidal thoughts, a faulty system, and societal shaming, oh my: why getting help is easier said than done.
I’m sort of proud of this post. It’s a little too close to home for me to be entirely proud but I’m settling for a little proud. I’ve re-posted it before but I’ve been caught up in my life and essentially just trying to hang on as the hot mess express barrels through it so I haven’t been writing. I want to get back to it and thought what better inspiration than a post I really enjoyed writing?
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I stopped writing a bit.
I’m in a new job in a new part of the country and this is literally “Building Atlas” or a master class in building myself. I would really like to write about navigating a new …
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People who are suicidal do not have a disregard for life.
Anybody who thinks for an extended period of time about killing herself and, in spite of panic and pain, does not do so, clearly has thought enough about what is lost by ending life to …
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I keep wanting to come back to this
and write because it was such a good outlet for me but I just get to this page where I can write and can’t commit to a topic, feeling, or idea. It’s like I can’t …
