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From Whispers to Voices: Why is it still hard to talk about mental health

It has always been around. From Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece times to today, mental health was present. And as time ticks on, we learn more about it. More importantly, we are starting to talk more about it. Yet, we still are not talking about it enough. How can we turn these whispers into voices? Before anyone really understood mental health and how it impacts a person, the stigma was so thick. Many were seen as demonized and left for dead. However, as medicine continued to develop, understanding mental health started to show signs of understanding. Just not far enough …

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The unstoppable change of life

So, my son is moving on from elementary school to junior high school after the summer break. He keeps telling me how much he doesn’t want to grow up. He wishes he could be a kid for the rest of his life. He doesn’t want to be an adult and have to do adult things. The problem is, he cannot stop the change. Life doesn’t stop. Time doesn’t stop. As much as we wish everything can stay the same, it will change. Personal Just the other day, my mom commented that she liked this new Jennifer 2.0. So, I had …

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The Support Audit: Who Is in Your Corner?

I have been playing an online game for a couple of years now and I am amazed by the different people I get to talk to every day. Different lives and different stories. I have heard of people in war zones suffering from family trauma, illnesses, and more. But the same thing keeps coming up, when someone is needing help, they reach out to the team on the game for support. Some don’t have family or friends nearby. So, the game became their support. Do you know who is in your support corner? There are many out there that do …

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Suffering is Universal—Compassion Should Be Too

Since I started this journey nearly 6 years ago, I have focused on my thoughts, my feelings, and my issues. And the more I discuss what I am doing with this blog, the more I find others sharing similar thoughts and feelings. Others include men, women, young children, teenagers, adults of all ages. No matter the race, age, or gender, mental health affects us all. We all bleed the same and we all need to feel loved. Same and Different Today I was talking with my son about life. I told him that life is full of choices. How you …

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Nothing wrong about finding grace in an average day

There are times when I come to my computer and I don’t know what to write. It is those days when I am either having a good day or so much going on, I am on autopilot. But that is okay. Because we have all have seen days that are good, and days that just seem to be nothing special. It is okay to just be okay. No day is going to be perfect, without any frustration or stress. Sometimes it is just about finding the grace in an average day. I don’t always like it when friends ask me, …

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Everyone Unraveling the process layer by layer

Each person is different, and yet the same. We each laugh and cry. Everyone feels and thinks. It is how we handle and process each event that differs. There could be 5 people impacted by the same event, and each will process differently. There is no right way or wrong way. But there is a healthy way and a damaging way. Just need to pull it back layer by layer. Same and Different I have lost family members in my life over the last 10 years. Experiencing grandparents and my father leaving this earth has made me realize how I …

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What if you are just Shadow Boxing with the Future

It is the simplest two words that can cause such chaos. It will start you questioning everything and learning nothing. Two words that can stop a person in their tracks. Fill them up with dread and leave them with thoughts that don’t stop. Two words, “What if”. Just two words that can have you beaten up in a shadow box fight with the future. Shadow How many times have you been faced with a big decision, buying a car, investing in a home, moving, or changing jobs? And when you finally get the courage to make the move, suddenly those …

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My fight of the daily quiet revolution

Don’t you wish you could control life like you control your TV? When you experience depression, anxiety, moments relating to ADHD, bipolar, or anything else relating to mental health, there is no stopping it. Your life has now officially changed. And the only thing you can do is manage it so you can live your best life. Caring for your mental health is a lifelong dedication, much like caring for your physical health. Just some battles are much quieter than others. Every day I fight battles that no one knows about. To me these have become annoyances. But they didn’t …

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The strength in “I can’t do this alone”

I was talking with my Mom recently about family members and how prideful they are. Prideful in not asking for help or acknowledging they need help. For centuries, mental health had developed a strong negative stigma that too many still refuse to talk about it. And the first step in any recovery will always be the acknowledgement that help is needed. When someone lives in a life for so long it is not healthy, it is very difficult to see the need for help. Life becomes safe from an unknown world. It is not that we don’t want to make …

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Are you mending your mind over the edge?

It is an overwhelming need. A desire to have it all the time. The feeling, the experience, what makes everything fade away. Addiction controls and damages everything in its path. And I don’t know if there such a thing called a healthy addiction. Can addictions mend a mind already over the edge? Identification Addiction is very difficult to overcome. “Once an addict, always an addict.” But…there are ways to push past and find yourself on the healthier side. That first step, accepting you have a problem. Nothing can happen unless you want it to. You want help, to feel better, …