Mental Health & Wellness Posts

It takes one person to start a conversation or write about a topic that is not well publicized. Please, sit and have a chat with me about mental health and wellness.

  • Cancer Sucks

    She walked into the sparsely occupied cancer center, sat down, and started talking to another patient in the waiting area. The 72-year-old gray-haired woman was a bubbly breath of fresh air that stood out against the hushed background noise of the room. During her open conversation, to anyone who wanted to join in, she disclosed…

  • Is It Really Narcissism

    Mental health language occasionally makes its rounds on the social media sphere. Even though this is a plus for mental health awareness, too often, it is taken way out of context and even benign behaviors are tagged with a clinical diagnosis. Over the years, the social trending world discovered bipolar, borderline, PTSD and now, the…

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  • The News of Anxiety

    The world feels like it is on fire. This can be literal or figurative due to an abundance of information about global and local unrest which is courtesy of every news broadcast and social media posts. The reality is our thoughts were not meant to absorb the world’s struggles en masse. The onslaught of wars…

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  • Lived Experience: Dementia – Somebody That I Used to Know

    The last person in the room was my father. This was to be his future home. He too was watching the tv, then he smiled, and gestured as if the actor spoke directly to him. His chats with the people on tv as not new. He was slipping very quickly.

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  • A Shoulder for Tears and Fears

    One of the scariest things is to step outside the comfort zone of emotional isolation. Relationships are not perfect because people are imperfect; however, it is worth the anxious heart palpitations that come from trying to forge connections.