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I told you yesterday that I got through a bunch of stuff. Did I mention that I got my back up system running again? Well, I did, and I go caught up writing blog posts for the blogs I write for....

Today I love being challenged by life the way I have been this week. I love how good it feels to succeed even at the easy things when they are made more difficult....

With sensory processing disorder (SPD), leaving the house can be tricky. There are so many unforeseen sensory triggers that even just going for a walk can seem daunting. Since discovering my sensory needs a few years ago,...

Perfectionism seems straightforward, but it’s often misunderstood. Many people think perfectionism helps them achieve their goals and get better results. American culture continues to encourage perfectionism despite all of the research that indicates perfectionism is associated with increased anxiety,...

I have spent an awful lot of money while manic. Almost all of it on things I later regretted buying. When I

Pets have always been so essential in my life. I started begging for a pet bird when I was seven years old. At age eight, a green and white parakeet named Perky arrived and we were instantly inseparable....

Before I started my Bipolar medications I was a healthy slim size but was unstable mentally, always swinging up and down between two extremes, often self-harming and suicidal, often in crisis and generally very unhappy most of the time....

I love good food, but sometimes what most attracts me to a restaurant is the setting and the views. At one of my favorite Santa Barbara restaurants, I can sit out on the porch on the top floor,...

Dissociative Disorders are characterized as mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection between reality and fantasy. Individuals that have this disorder often lack continuity between thoughts,...

I was recently in a shop with a friend when a young man in his late twenties came in to get his hair cut. Friendly and likeable he was amusing the hairdresser with some stories of his birthday....

If I tell you I was working on something and then I got distracted, you probably visualize me dropping whatever I was working on and going to do something else....

Question: What’s the tastiest Easter treat to ease stress?  Answer: the raw carrots left for the Easter Bunny. Wrong! The correct answer, per this chocolate devotee, is the delicious milk-chocolate bunny;...

4 ways Trump’s presidency has evoked a sense of powerlessness: 1) Marginalization – when an individual or group minimizes or disavows the legitimacy, rights or privileges of others who are believed to be somehow different from the mainstream....

In our book A Womb of Her Own, (Routledge, 2017) author JoAnn Ponder writes of her own experiences as an adoptive mother. She states as follows: I was exhilarated to arrive home after two weeks in China,...