Feeling With Purpose
“What were you thinking !? I was shaking as I closed the gap between me and the safety of the sidewalk.”
Tag: Reflection
A Girl and Her SeaShell Skirt
While we lived in Mali the mission would send us for Vacation in The Gambia right on the coast of West Africa. This was actually cheap Canada.
Image: little girl dancing in her sea – shell skirt made with caliart markers
Memoirs of Mali Part 3
Memoirs of Mali continued….
Cellular Device
A little object poem about cellphones.
Slaying Dragons
Let’s get real for a moment guys – this poem has an incredibly important message. When someone is experiencing untreated ptsd, depression, anxiety or any mental illness for a long period of time it can become your new norm. When these things are all you know you start to accept them and see them as a part of you. The behaviours that emerge from mental illnesses can seem like Character defects and failings instead of what they are, symptoms.
Don’t ever stop fighting for wellness.
It’s worth it.
Memories of Mali Part 2
Memories flicker like flames
Mali memories part 2: Destination Yuvuru
Seasonal Affective Disorder
With winter comes the winter blues, this year it caught me off guard. This year I am sober, and wiser, and I have so many skills and tools and so much support. This year SAD will not destroy everything I have worked so hard for.
Here is my poem and sketch about SAD.
Eleven Months
Eleven months of sobriety came and went quietly. At 11 months I pause to remember the suffering, to allow it to sit. I remember then so I can appreciate even more, the now. So I can remember why I have to pursue mindfulness and healing now and always.
An Essential Existential Fact
“Love is what we are born with, fear is what we are taught here.”
– Marianne Williamson
Acceptance, We Meet Again
Some days acceptance is harder then others. I am prone to fighting and fretting instead of releasing and accepting – Its never to late to surrender again.
I write to remind,
myself and anyone else who needs to hear this today, too.