Mental not quite health – wtf Am I On About Now?

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022

Short-term, long-term self-care & oat-meal

(In which I hit a new record for hyphens* in a title) In recent posts, while discussing a non-work related burnout (what IS it with…

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May 21, 2022May 21, 2022

SoCS clear — 5.21.22

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “clear.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy! I already know this is going to be a…

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May 20, 2022

Blogging as therapy?

I know I’m not alone in finding the act of blogging as therapeutic. Writing to yourself in a journal is therapeutic (many a therapist has…

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May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

Irony — Mental Health Awareness Month

There's a month for everything, and apparently May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental Health Awareness Month aims to raise awareness and educate the public…

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May 15, 2022

Showing up

This quote is said many ways and attributed to many people, including Woody Allen. However stated & by whomever, it is correct. Best of plans…

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April 29, 2022April 28, 2022

Blogging A-to-Z 2022, Y

You I keep hearing songs in my head as I write. I might be turning into Jily over at Grin and Bear It, as she…

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While I sometimes write about mental health issues, this blog is not solely about mental health. Sometimes I will touch upon sensitive subject material. As a reader, I understand what it is to have a trigger accidentally tripped. Therefore, I want to warn sensitive readers before hand about the personal, and sometimes painful, subject material within. If I know that there is a common trigger in my post, I will try to flag it at the beginning, but I will not be specifying any and all triggers that might possibly be set off with each post, and so: Please read with caution.