May Is Mental Health Awareness Month

What I had considered for months to be just normal motherhood exhaustion and worry, was really the beginning of a slow, downward spiral, increasingly feeling I was boxed into a life of repetitive inner turmoil, negative self-talk, and emotional numbness.  I began to feel there was no way out of the vicious cycle I found myself in. My story could have ended there. … Continue readingMay Is Mental Health Awareness Month

It Can’t Be Fixed with Two Aspirin: Mental Illness in Your Family

A “Brillant Madness” is how actress Patty Duke titled her autobiography in which she describes her life living with Manic Depressive mental health illness.  Otherwise known as Bipolar, manic depressive is one of the most challenging mental health illnesses to live with because you can … Continue readingIt Can’t Be Fixed with Two Aspirin: Mental Illness in Your Family