Still Hurting

How to love and support someone who constantly thinks about ending their life.

Get yourself back to an even keel.

The holidays provide a good time for some much-needed introspection.

A ritual for we who fall in love a little too easily.

Ten flashes of memories we made.

There is only one guarantee in life: everything changes.

It’s hard. Don’t beat your head against the desk.

And I’m trying to shut it up with Crystal Light.

Cutting through the waves never gets any easier.

On depression, time, and the universe moving.

and, also, your worst enemy.

Today we’re starting the Ninja Writer Academy workshops, and, I have to admit, I’m really nervous.

A portrait of Major-Depressive adulthood.

And there’s no cage in the world big enough to hold them.

The laws of the universe like to kick my ass.

My hate for my body comes out in the strangest places.

I’m used to pushing through everything. Some things, you can’t.

Trying to flip my harsh internal script into something kinder.

Even if it feels like you’re going nowhere.

I don’t do meditation. Not really.

Sometimes, my body is the last place I want to be.

During my worst depressive cycle, I was offered help. Here’s why I couldn’t take it.

Reflections on an Unwieldy Body from a Bone-Weary Guy

A road map of how it happens, from one who’s been there.