Gettin Ready To Give’r

I don't know what it is about the new year that gets me so motivated to turn over a new leaf. It's literally just me celebrating the earth doing a full rotation around the sun, and setting intentions based off of that. But I'm also Jewish, and Pagan, so I celebrate two other New Years …

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Sweet Sixteen

It's a beautiful day. The sun is shining, blue skies, birds are singing. It's the perfect day to celebrate a sweet sixteenth birthday. This celebration will be bittersweet, however as the birthday girl is no longer with us. She died on her birthday, she was stillborn. I didn't always celebrate my first daughter's birthday. For …

When You Have Intrusive Suicidal Thoughts

I was going through my Facebook memories yesterday morning and saw that two years ago I was having unwanted passive suicidal thoughts. I remember that day quite vividly. I was happy with my life but battling to maintain stability. I was fighting off a bipolar mixed episode and adjusting to a new dosage of my …

So Long, And Thanks For All The Licks

Grief is a strange thing to experience. It comes in waves, it ebbs and flows. I was riding out my grief and just when I thought I was doing a good job of managing it and getting better, I got hit with a tsunami of grief. It's a thing. I lost my mother just over …

Living with Grief

I'm having a bad day. It's just not my day, I guess. There's this heaviness that I can't escape, it weighs on my soul. It's been there since the day I got that fateful text about my Momma, on October 9th. She passed away on a Wednesday, October 10th. I've come to terms with her …