Pandemic anxiety is real, and many people are finding themselves in a place where they need to seek professional help to manage it. Tears, anxiety, paranoia, and shortness of breath… just a few feelings and emotions I’ve been dealing with these last few weeks. I’ve always been sort of a paranoid person. […]
Those of us who carry around intense fears and worries every day know that anxiety and mental health are not things to make light of. Mental health issues can be seriously debilitating but they can also give us tools {and super powers} that other people don’t have. 3 A.M. My personal witching hour, when phantoms […]
I didn’t politely sit down on the couch. I crumbled, face first, weary and defeated, into the nearest cushion. Didn’t even glance for crumbs. Wouldn’t have minded their indentions. It was after 9:00 PM, but before 10:00 PM—some hazy in between with over-tired kids; a new kind of witching hour. My husband had been overseas […]
Dolly’s voice normally signifies the beginning of my holiday season. The Chipmunks, though not as reliable, often have the same affect. I’m a sentimental fool. Christmas just exacerbates that. I’m the chick that ugly cries during Christmas songs. I don’t care if it’s about a manger or a hippopotamus; tears will come. It’s involuntary. It […]
Sooooo…this just happened last night at our house. It made me sick to my stomach to insert the final school picture of my oldest daughter. It made my heart literally ache. I stared at it for at least 20 minutes…remembering what I could about each day and year represented. I texted her daddy a picture […]
