Health & Well-Being

My mind is cluttered. Stuffed full of so many things that it’s nearly impossible to function. I deal with a type of paralysis weekly, if not daily, because I never know which direction to move in. Like most Americans, I have a never-ending list of...

It’s been fourteen months since I wrote. The last time was before the 2021 holiday season. The rest of the world might complain about 2020 being a bad year, one that will stick with them, but for me that year will be 2022. I’m happy...

I have a co-worker who has often said they have thick skin and therefore we can say what we want without worrying about adverse effects. This is not an usual thought process in our society. People are constantly telling others to “get a thick skin”....

I started a book last summer that had been recommended to me by a therapist, The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. He has been studying the effects of trauma in adults and children for decades and shares his findings in...

Since late Spring / early Summer, I’ve been regressing mentally. Depression and fear have been slowly creeping back into my life and this past week really began to overwhelm me. I’ve been attempting to find the source of this and get some relief and my...

As I sit here writing this, I desperately want to head to the freezer and eat the rest of the ice cream. There’s about 1 ½ cups left in the carton, which is three servings based on actual serving size. I want to sprinkle additional...

Note: I wrote this post, then per usual, let it sit for a day. I then came back to it and re-read it. I made a couple of grammar and vocabulary changes, but in general, this is the first post that I’ve never made big...

Parentification is when a child is either expected to act like the adult or parent directly by caring for siblings or their own parents, paying bills, making meals, etc…OR by becoming the emotional caregiver for their parents. In my case, it was the latter. In...

I learned a new word about two weeks ago – parentification. It’s a word that has changed my life. What is parentification? In a nutshell, it’s when the roles of children and parents become reversed. It’s when a child either takes on the role as...

Our society loves to hammer a particular thought into our heads, and that thought is that family is the most important thing in a person’s life. We are supposed to put family above everything else. I say – bullshit. I’m so tired of every book,...