When I emerged from my long battle with depression I felt better but not whole. Somewhere in there, I had lost my ability to trust in myself. I had lost my confidence. For a while, it seemed I would always be afraid of slipping back into that hole. I didn’t…
You know how you always forget you’re so thankful there isn’t a screaming child on your plane, until there’s a screaming child right in front of you on your plane? This happened to me last week.
(On this day — Mental Health Day — honoring those who have struggled with a mental illness, I would like to offer my voice, a little of my story and a brighter side. This is a story of depression, of longing for wondrous things, for the brighter side and for connection.)
Get honest, be accountable and own your crap.
Yikes.
As a clinical social worker, anytime I say that to a client I usually end up getting either a…
Nectar was a foreign concept to me for most of my life. John Kim describes nectar as things that bring you joy. I did not know joy for most of my life, as I spent most of my life depressed and in…
It’s really simple. If you strip everything down, you are either living or dying. You are obsessing about the future, dwelling on the past. Holding onto expired relationships. Eating like shit. Feeding addictions and unhealthy patterns. Not sleeping. Weighing yourself. You…
Since starting the path of becoming a life coach, there have been many different reactions from people I interact with, that range from radical support to outright questioning of my judgement. I’ve been asked if my own life is in order. To which…
