Shattered but not Broken
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The...
View ArticleThere is No Shame In Any Emotion
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of...
View Article8 Crazy BasicTraining Tips To Ease The Anguish – Mental Health
How are you? They ask. Oh, I am fine, I reply. I see you are getting out more, good for you! My reply, Ya, it feels good to get out once and awhile. «Keep it up» They encourage.. and I love...
View ArticleI Felt a Funeral In my Brain ~ Andrew Solomon #BellLetsTalk
«The opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality» ~ Andrew Solomon This month, I am joining Bell Canada in the Bell Lets Talk campaign. The official date is January 28th, in which Bell will...
View ArticleMy Brother – A poem by Kim Larocque
Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or...
View ArticleA Little Help Here Please?
“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.” ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy There are those days when I think I can conquer the world...
View ArticleI So Want You To Feel Better
“Where you are is in a perfect place to begin again” ¬ Abraham Hicks Recently, a loved one, has resurfaced in crisis. This person is trying to make his way through the fog, a fog I once moved...
View ArticleDon’t Cast Away Isolation and Loneliness
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as...
View ArticleDitching a HUGE False-Belief
“I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity...
View ArticleTruth Colored Glasses : by Kim Larocque
“Nothing heals, helps, cures, mends, builds, clears, stabilizes, fixes, balances, restores, corrects, inspires, enables, empowers, enlightens or tickles, better than the truth.” ~Tut.com These past...
View ArticleSecret Sorrows
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I’m sorry… I am sorry you felt so bad that you thought...
View ArticleEnding Stigma Begins with Me – Befriending Myself
“Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that...
View ArticleDoes Anything In Nature Despair?
“ Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense...
View ArticleDepression – A Familiar Soldier
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray It told me it was coming the night I closed my eyes, and began...
View ArticleLets Hear, See and Validate for Mental Health
“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.” ― Jill Bolte Taylor You know that awkward feeling when you have not seen someone in a very long time, and you are not sure how to...
View ArticleI Felt a Funeral In my Brain ~ Andrew Solomon #BellLetsTalk
«The opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality» ~ Andrew Solomon Today, I am joining Bell Canada in the Bell Lets Talk campaign: Bell will donate .05 cents for every Tweet with the...
View ArticleUnstoppable
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as...
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