Unexpected Blueprint

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,...

Before I continue writing this post, it’s important for me to reiterate that I am NOT a qualified mental health professional. I’m still fighting my depression, so it’s also safe to say that I don’t have anything really figured out about how to combat it....

It’s the end of February. Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas I started to feel pretty crappy – mentally. If you’ve read any previous posts, it’s clear that depression is a pretty common passenger in my car on this road of life so I didn’t think...