Every year for Christmas my family would get together to celebrate. At that time I had a rather large family. My aunts and uncles, grandparents, my mom and me. I mean, everyone came. And they traveled from long distances just to spend time at our family Christmas gathering. My grandmother was the ringleader of the whole affair. Cooking a ... [ Read More ]
132 Ways to Help Overcome Depression and Anxiety
This quote is one that I heard recently in a book called You Are a Bad Ass by Jen Sincero. I absolutely love this book. But after doing some research about it, I had come to find that the quoted author of this saying, Tao Te Ching, is said not to have actually said it. And although the author of this quote is debatable, I do like the analogy it ... [ Read More ]
How to Recognize When You Have Anxiety
I look down at my phone and see that I've got a new text, yay! And then I notice that it's from my ex-husband, boo. I almost immediately get anxiety whenever I have to deal with him. Mostly because of our abusive history, but also because he just is not fun to deal with most of the time. I do anything and everything I can to avoid having to do so. ... [ Read More ]
You Deserve to Be Happy
I couldn't get through the heaviness of it all. My life, my responsibilities, my divorce. I just felt overwhelmed and like I didn't deserve anything good in my life. You ever feel like that? Hopeless, worthless, undeserving? I felt so alone in all these feelings. I shouldn't feel like that, but I couldn't help it. It was probably the fifth night I ... [ Read More ]