Happy February 1st! Here’s What’s Important!

Relevant observances for today Time to talk day Today is a day set aside as a reminder to begin the tough conversations we need to have surrounding our mental health. There’s never going to be a perfect time to ask for help, or to talk to our loved ones about them getting help, but ifContinue reading “Happy February 1st! Here’s What’s Important!”

Check out these old poems.

Trigger Warning This my first poetry post on this blog, but these poems are from my not so distant past. Some are happy and hopeful, but some may be sad and may bring up intense feelings for people who have been through similar situations. For the most part my poetry is based on my lifeContinue reading “Check out these old poems.”

A new kind of self care challenge!

I have been trying to think of a new challenge to add to the challenges page of this website. I finally found one that I think would be interesting to try. The challenge is from the website http://www.realsimple.com; it is a list of 20 different mini self care habits to add to your life toContinue reading “A new kind of self care challenge!”

Fun self care day at the zoo!

This post is only going to be photos I took at the zoo this past weekend. This weekend I made the previous post on gratitude, but I wanted to also spend the weekend doing things I enjoy that aren’t the blog or related to school. I wasn’t planning on doing anything for the blog, butContinue reading “Fun self care day at the zoo!”

All about Gratitude!

One thing that can be difficult to find when you are struggling with mental illness and crisis after crisis is gratitude. When it feels like the world is giving you so much pain and anguish, when it feels like everything that can go wrong will go wrong (Murphy’s law), it can be hard to findContinue reading “All about Gratitude!”