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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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I’ve Gotta Be Me: Living For Yourself

A few weeks ago, I was talking to my art therapist about how difficult it can be to live how I feel called to when I have to live around others. It’s probably a common struggle. I’ve talked about this briefly in this post. I wrote: “I need to not push myself, I need to […]

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One Hell of a Week

It has been one hell of a week. I don’t know why. Toddler hood is fucking rough, man. For the kid and for the stay at home mama/ Oh and for the working daddy who has to come home after a very long day and try to deal with a mama who just wants to […]

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