Finding My Way Home
"I had taken so many twists and turns and had become so entangled in my depression and self-injury that I didn’t know where – or who – I was anymore."
Topic: anxiety
When Your Mind Is an Unreliable Narrator
"Here’s the truth: You’re the protagonist of your life. You decide the supporting cast. You decide which thoughts you give importance to. You make the choices."
On Returning to Therapy
"So much of what happened in my life was out of my control. Asking for help is not one of those things."
The Definition of Strength
"Being too prideful to reach out for help gets you nowhere as I soon discovered when I first started suffering from anxiety."
Five Lies Depression Told Me
"The first lie depression told me was that I did not have depression."
Seven Billion and Growing.
"But for all of the heartbreak you and I have felt, we have to breathe and realize—we are surviving."
We Don’t Need to be Perfect
"We live in a society that values perfection and holds it up as something attainable, but it’s time we break free from that way of thinking."
What No One Tells You About Trauma
"You become someone who has a before and after. You become someone who has been unmistakably altered."
For Those Who Have Stayed
“I believe that everyone who puts up with me secretly hates me or finds me annoying. Please don't take offense.”
Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015
This month we're looking back on 2015 and sharing the most popular blog posts from this year.
Beautiful. Loved. Enough.
"I wake up most days to the constant reminder that I live with a mental illness."
Between Verses
"Music provides a way to make sense of a world full of contrast, one that is at once beautiful and terrible, both broken and hopeful."
