I have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD - the most fitting acronym EVER). It’s ironic for a couple of reasons. 1) I had a very happy early childhood in Fairbanks, Alaska, and 2) I willingly live here now. It took...
I don’t have any chill during the holidays. At all. The rest of the year, I have about 1% chill, but it’s all gone during the holidays. I have the unfortunate personality traits of being kind of high-strung but...
During this time of the year, I find myself, like many people, reflecting over the past year and setting goals for the coming year. I am a firm believer in the power that setting goals can bring and how...
Life is busy.
Crazy busy.
Not just for me, but for everyone! It seems to have become a badge of honor to be running around rampant and to not ever take a moment to sit still. For some, that may suit...
I’ve always been super independent and never really experienced much loneliness; I enjoy my own company. But then I had kids. Those first few weeks after my son was born were an extremely dark time.
We live far away from...
Winter is always a hard season for me. I wouldn’t say I suffer from full on “depression” per say, but I definitely get some form of the “winter blues.” The holidays are over, the weather is dreary, and my...
I’ve been thinking for months about this post. How to word it, how to face it. For months, I’ve been treading lightly around the idea that I know the reason I didn’t fit in in this community…. It was...
We need to open the conversation. We need to open the conversation about postpartum depression. So, we are opening it today, and with one message - you are not alone, you are not failing as a mother, and there...
Mental health does not discriminate through race, age, or even social class. According to Psychology Today, approximately one in five adults in the United States, 43.8 million, or 18.5%, experiences a mental illness in a given year and approximately...
People strongly associate me with a few things. Taco Bell, makeup, soups, the inability to make it through a day without embarrassing myself, and… depression.
People approach me about mental health sometimes – questions about therapy or medications or just...
In + Around East Idaho
Befriend the Bats
My family had the chance to do Bat Night at the zoo in Idaho Falls this year, something that we had been looking forward...
