Real Talk Around Netflix’s All the Bright Places
I was not only captivated by the story in All the Bright Places, but completely tuned into the ways they were bringing mental illness into the conversation.
Depression
Apparently Today is my Birthday
Apparently today is my birthday. I only know this because my family tells me so. Okay, well, I know when my birthday is; I simply choose not to celebrate it.
How Grief Has Changed Me
Y’all, I miss my mom like crazy every day; but I can’t look past the change in myself without her here. I can’t deny the way that grief has changed me.
The Book Club I Never Knew I Needed
Colby says he enjoys when I read. It calms me, he says. In fact, together, we’ve inadvertently started a book club I never knew I needed.
Dear Future Me, I Think You Should Know…
Disclosure: This is a sponsored letter inspired through a partnership with Nature’s Bounty. Regardless, all opinions and thoughts are my own. Do you ever look back over your life and say, “If only I had know then what I know now?” Or, perhaps something I seem to do most often, … Read more
Breaking the Curse of Being the Adult Child of an Alcoholic
There is a saying at the end of the movie, Hope Floats that has always resonated me to my very core: “Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.” As the mother of 5, this is something I don’t really want for my children. I … Read more