Summer Island "It was the impurity in her heart that made her successful. She was an ordinary woman who’d made extraordinary mistakes. She understood every nuance of need and loss."
~ Summer Island
Given my love for women’s ...
The Song in You: Finding Your Voice, Redefining Your Life “I’ve discovered there’s genuine healing power in sharing your struggles. Accurately identifying what they are and where they came seems to take away their power.”
With her book, LaDonna Gatlin does just that. The author is ...
Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir “You cannot distract yourself from grief. You cannot dispel it. You cannot conquer it. You can only live through it.”
When Paul Gruchow first started putting Letters to a Young Madman together, he wondered how his disjointed ...
I Am Not Silent: Our Zoloft and Depression Story The intersection of our mental health and criminal justice systems is one that is fraught with complications. Numerous questions arise when a defendant has a history of mental illness. For Gail Schmidkunz, this reality became ...
Breath in the Dark: A Childhood Lost When I was 6 years old, my favorite pastime was playing with dolls or playing dress-up. I can remember spending hours in my “princess” dress, dancing around the living room while my mother stood by ...
Companion to an Untold Story Marcia Aldrich’s Companion to an Untold Story is the author’s attempt to make sense of her close friend’s suicide. In the time leading up to the unfortunate event, Aldrich’s friend Joel hatched a plan to ...
Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created.
Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness, yet at the same time also one of the most poorly understood. Most people have felt emotionally depressed at some point in their life. ...
George Mason: Life of Death Author's note: This review of George Mason’s autobiography, Life of Death, is not a review of Mason’s life, but rather of his book. It is difficult to critique the book without appearing critical toward the ...
When My Mommy Cries Crystal Godfrey LaPoint’s tender story in When My Mommy Cries is one that has needed to be told for some time now. Like any good children’s author, LaPoint is able to succinctly express her theme, ...
Manage Your Depression Through Exercise Starting any exercise program can be a tough task. However, for those suffering from depression, it can be close to impossible. Just getting out of bed is a struggle for some; how are they to ...
The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
Sleeping With Gods The subject of mental illness has often been explored in works of literature and other media. Michael Fontana’s novel Sleeping With Gods aims to combine a coming-of-age love story with themes of mental health. In ...
Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery: My Journey through Mental Illness Barbara Altman, a St. Louis, Mo., native, earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Fontbonne University and taught music therapy at St. Louis Institute of Music. She now teaches piano and guitar in her home ...
