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Small Accomplishments: Facing Your Mount Everest

Often, as women with mental illnesses, our accomplishments feel like facing and scaling Mount Everest while to our partner, best friend or neighbor it looks like stepping on a small ant hill. A year ago, it took deep breathing, squeezing my (then) fiance’s hand and a lot of convincing to leave our small bedroom just […]

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No Feeling is Final

When I am in the throes of a panic attack or a week when my anxiety over takes everyday, normal tasks or when my depression makes me want to stay in bed and do nothing…I remember this: “Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final.” Rainer Maria Rilke […]

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