I Am One In Fifty: When Pain Finds Purpose
I was catching up with someone I hadn’t seen in a while. We started talking about mental health, 2020, political landscapes, the dread of it all, and coping mechanisms. Me: …
Aging with a Disability: 3 Essential Tips for Financial Planning
When planning for the future with a disability, there are more factors at play to be considered.
Two Societal Enablers of Psychological Abuse Indicted
Unlike physical abuse, attacks against one’s psyche, or psychological abuse does not typically make the list of society’s greatest evils. Yet research has uncovered and documented that the emotional or …
Educating Ourselves About Abuse
Abuse can come in many forms. Often we are only familiar with the most egregious cases of physical or sexual abuse. However, according to the “East Riding Safeguarding Adults Board:” …
Purple Chrysanthemums
I planted purple chrysanthemums in my yard this fall. It was an act of defiance. Because ever since I was 15, just the sight of them made me bristle with …
Facing the Pain
When it’s a rainy gray day and you are feeling down do you ever get the urge to pull out the ice-cream and turn on a TV show? Or if …
Addiction and God’s Good Graces
Grace has many faces. Basically it is experienced as an unearned or undeserved act of loving kindness. If I neglect my wife and yet she returns my thoughtlessness with an …
Addiction: Quick Facts
What comes to mind when I say “addiction”? Perhaps you picture a sad looking disheveled addict as you might see pictured in a “say no to drugs” campaign or perhaps …
Out of the Depths
“Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.” — Psalm 130:1 I can remember reading this one night as I struggled with the overwhelming darkness that seemed …
Overcoming Anxiety
According the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders volume 5 otherwise known as DSM 5 there are 9 mental disorders under the anxiety category. Separation Anxiety Disorder Selective Mutism …