An Interactive Celebration by Cathy Kern – Writer
By Marty Writing this was hard. What I thought I’d overcome and transcended ‘loftily’ seems to have returned recently in a more resistant form. A mild but nonetheless sticking form of despair which, despite its persistent nature, I’ve found I can allow and sit with more. Without needing to ‘fix’ it. Here’s my overcoming despair –
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By Heather Rose I became truly ill with my mental illness at 21. Growing up with a father with bipolar disorder and then later a mother with a mental breakdown, I knew about mental illness, but mine did not really kick in until my early twenties. I have had many things that have saved me from
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By Anonymous contributor Thinking back to 2005 I see myself holding my breath and living each day and night in anticipation of the next dramatic event in my son’s life. I still see the doctor’s diagnosis scrawled on a piece of paper and handed to me in the waiting room of the local hosital’s emergency room:
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Whether you personally are still battling against COVID, slowly disentangling from its impact, or coming to terms with life-long consequences, I expect you’ve endured challenges you’d never have imagined pre-pandemic. My heart goes out to you. I hope this or a past or a future post offers something you might need to read. During the global
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By Gloria Kelley It’s not easy for one to begin talking about their vulnerabilities and all the wrongs–not just the ‘rights’–that they’ve made in their life, personally as well as professionally. I remember being a young girl and always dreaming big. I would often look at someone because of the way they carried themselves, or after
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By Anonymous contributor “If gold rusts, what then can iron do?” – Geoffrey Chaucer The minute I turned eighteen, I left home and never came back. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration; I came back a couple of years later after my mom died. She kept her illness from everyone until the family reunited
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By Julie Oleszek Imagine every pixelated piece of your life stretching across a movie reel, picture-by-picture, on the big screen. You sit at the edge of your seat, foreseeing what’s next, wanting it to stop, but willing each scene forward into a steep climb with hurried momentum until that instant you can deem yourself safe—the moment
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By Kevin J. Moriarity I was a consultant and project manager in the software business. Part of the training, and subsequent practice, was in risk management. I was trained to anticipate all the things that could go wrong and develop contingency plans ahead of time in case they occurred. What I learned after two decades of
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Yesterday I began this piece with these words: “This post is already the most painful one I’ve written to date. Starting to type as my eyes well with tears is not typical.” Today, I started over. Because this blog is not about tears or despair but hope. Today, this post is about overcoming fear by finding,
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By Hareesh Jayanthi I’ve heard the whispers: “I’m not good enough,” “people will laugh at me,” “I am a fraud.” They won’t stop, but to take my game where I want it to go, they have to, if not be stopped, at least be tamed. Before I can do that however, I need to know my enemy.
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