Having Borderline Personality Disorder is like being in a room with four glass walls. It separates the entity, known as you, from the rest of the entire world. You can pound on the glass all you want, jump up and down, send S.O.S. smoke signals, but no one comes. You reach out to hear and…
Does anyone else remember the song by The Offspring, She’s Got Issues? When that song first came out, I was an adult still healing from my childhood trauma. Hearing the song lyrics felt like pouring salt onto a flesh wound–raw and painful. Having mental illness or PTSD is difficult to heal from, but it can…
When you are dealing with depression, it may seem like you’re never going to get better or see the light of day. That is simply not true. Just like it took time to get into a depressive state (or maybe you came into this incarnation as depressed), it may take a little time to get…
Of course, it doesn’t start out that way for most people. We are skipping along in life, and suddenly we find ourselves in a dark place. We come into hard times, horrifying circumstances, or real-life challenges, and it knocks us off kilter. We are unable to find homeostasis and we start to suffer physically, mentally,…
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. Seems simple enough, but do you really know who you are? Until we awaken from our collective trance, we are a collaboration of everyone we have come into contact with since the day we were born. We are born into the matrix and the matrix tells us what…
Love in action. What does it look like when you love yourself unconditionally? You learn to cultivate trust, respect, and a myriad of other “friends” of unconditional love. More and more, life opens up to you and becomes a beautiful series of moments and experiences intertwined together under the heading of You. When you learn to…