This is part one of a two part post on “feeling normal” after coming through a time of depression or anxiety.  I wrote awhile back about starting to feel normal again.  It’s been quite awhile since I’ve felt normal – and the feeling was new and fresh and welcomed.  It has also been scary, emotional, and overwhelming! It’s not the normal part that’s hard – it’s the FEELING part. ...

Blogging can be very cathartic. A lot of topics can be explored, and we’ve certainly ventured into a wide variety of topics here. This week, I’m beginning a weekly series on depression and anxiety and how to deal with them. It may be only 2 posts – or it may be 22 posts. Depression and anxiety are the MOST commonly treated disorders today. Because they are so common, and so prevalent in women, and because I’ve both...

So for the first time in a very long time – on Tuesday as a matter of fact – I felt NORMAL.  I don’t know how else to describe it, but when I woke up, I was fully present, in my skin, in my circumstances, in my life. And it was a BEAUTIFUL day! It’s been so. very. long. since I have felt even the slightest tinge of “normal.”  Maintaining, yep.  Surviving, sure.  Even close to Positive.  But NORMAL? ...

Here’s my first Video Blog! Grab a cup of coffee or tea and settle in! (click below…)

No really?  Did you see it fly right on by?  It’s been something like the tornado from the wizard of oz with  cows and chickens flying by these days. If only that were TRUE!!!  No, instead, it has just been busy and I have just been tired and we have just been trying to get by.  At least we haven’t had 6 feet of snow on the ground, cuz I think that would have pushed me over into zombieland! No, instead, I’ve been focusing...

I started off the year reading One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp, and here it is, me writing my One Thousandth Post here on my little blog.  I guess it’s not so LITTLE, is it? I wanted to do something special for my readers – but you know what – every time I started in on it – LIFE HAPPENED.  LOL! I have a major paper to write for my Psych class on PTSD We are making plans for Little Man’s FIRST...

So this has been a fairly good week.  I haven’t posted much here – but I think we’re all feeling better.  I spent most of Wednesday sleeping while my kids slept.  That had a LOT to do with my feeling better. I had 2 good days of accomplishing tasks – 1 of not doing much of anything – and 2 of somewhat focused on tasks.  It’s a process, right? I have spent some time continuing to get computer files whittled...

Life is NOT like a box of chocolates, Forrest!  I don’t know about you, but I typically know which ones are caramels, which ones have nuts, can identify and distinguish between the milk and dark chocolates.  But life?   Life is not always so easy to navigate.   Like chocolate, it can be very sweet, very sticky, sometimes surprising – and when taken too-much-too-fast, can even be sickening…  Currently, my life is landing...

I’ve come to see Resolutions as Plans for the Unknown…  While I set some goals and make some resolutions about things I’d like to accomplish, changes I’d like to make, plans I’d like to follow through – I can’t really PLAN for the unknown. God knows that about me.  He knows that about US in fact.  One of my favorite Proverbs says just that: A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines...

There is something about looking back over a previous year that does a soul good, don’t you think?  Sometimes we see failures.  Sometimes we see successes.  Sometimes we see struggles and trials.  Sometimes we see amazing miracles and blessings.  It is a GOOD thing to consider where we’ve come from and what God has done for us.  So here’s my Review of 2011 and View of 2012… January – We still had Roy’s...