My recovery focused on a lot of supportive activities and rituals. The Al-anon meetings provided a healthy and spiritual community for me to stay connected. My Al-anon sponsor continued to show up in my life as a guide and cheerleader.
Depression is truly a soul killer. And it might be a slippery slope towards suicide if we don't get a handle on it, both personally and as a society.
If mental illness was more like typical illness we'd have a lot more sympathy for the suffering. If it's a disease, then we need to stop pushing and grinding ourselves…
I don't suffer from anxiety a lot, but in the past week, I've found myself on several nights wrestling with a bear. Here is what the bear was telling me.…
I am a feeling-driven person. My moods can drive ecstatic highs of creativity and pull me into lows of lethargy and inertia. There's no amount of lamenting that's going to…
Joy is different from happiness. Happiness is fleeting. Joy is innate. I believe we have set points, but not of happiness, of joy. I know that even in moments of…
Hi, and thanks for being a reader of The Whole Parent. A lot has changed since I started this blog over 5-years ago. My life has been through so many…
[I want you to contemplate the final seconds before a suicide attempt for a few minutes. This is an uncomfortable post. It's supposed to be.] As two beautiful, luminaries, died…
