Let’s talk Mental Health. It’s a subject that often gets tossed around A LOT in the last few years and it’s often misunderstood. The last few years I have struggled to come to terms with my own mental health issues, it started with postpartum depression after Joshua was born but it was never diagnosed because,Continue reading “Masks off”
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Healing in his wings
The Healing of the bleeding woman a characterization from Mark 5:25-34 Dust covered her feet, tired legs carried her through the heat of the day to the place where she had heard the crowd was gathering. She was hunched over, the shame of years of being unclean had worn her down and her eyes stayedContinue reading “Healing in his wings”
Beautifully Imperfect perfection
Inside the walls a therapists office I came face to face with my inner demons, the past dredged up, the old wounds opened and laid bare for me to see openly. It was grusome, ugly, and left me raw and vulnerable. Going home afterwards trying to paste a smile on for the boys and TimContinue reading “Beautifully Imperfect perfection”
The beginning
The climb is hard, not because the mountain is actually really a mountain, it’s really more of a quarter of one if you really think about it, but no … The beginning For new readers: 12 part series of the beginning
It’s a boat
Imagine if you will that dating is sitting or standing on a dock with someone that you are wanting to get to know. You talk for a bit but you realize that this person is actually not really someone you want to spend any long amount of time with so you kindly (KINDLY) say thankContinue reading “It’s a boat”
Part twelve: The end of the beginning
I pull off the road just a mile from the where the castle sits perched on the hill, it seems to glow in the late afternoon sun, the snow sparkles as the light moves over the ground and I can’t catch my breath it’s so beautiful. My hands are still on the wheel as IContinue reading “Part twelve: The end of the beginning”
New Song
Every morning, starting in mid January every single year the boys and I start to have the same conversations. When is winter over? When will it start to get warmer? Can I wear my spring coat? Why is it always dark? Can I wear my running shoes today? Do you think it will be warmer tomorow?Continue reading “New Song”
bumps
Yesterday I woke up feeling like I had taken a horrible fall back into the darkness, after talking just the day before about the rays of beautiful light and the hope and the healing I woke up desperately sad and then very angry to be back in the fog and dark. I hate the bumpsContinue reading “bumps”
It’s not in the fudge!
In the early fall, during one of the dark patches that seemed to have no end in sight,I got a random text from Tim with a picture of fudge, a picture that made it very clear that he had bought me some of my favorite fudge as a treat. The caption to the picture was “justContinue reading “It’s not in the fudge!”
opened the door and light came in…
Took a pie to his face at the carnival yesterday Sometimes the answer is in the knowing. You wander around looking for a door in a dark hallway and keep stumbling into walls, hands in front of your face, you get tired, frustrated, scared, and usually bruised. Then, someone tells you, ‘You are in aContinue reading “opened the door and light came in…”
Through the Lens of Motherhood 