Curious about a teen’s perspective on pain, funks, and dealing? Below is a “Teen Speak” version of On Our Pain. ON PAIN AND FUNKS By Lexie We all get into funks sometimes, heck! I’m sitting in the doorway of one right…
A Season of Unknowns: What’s Helping (and What’s Not)
I’m finding this summer unexpectedly challenging. From the oldest finishing high school and soon heading away to college, to the youngest getting ready to start a full day of school in first grade, life is heading into a new chapter.…
Positive Thinking Or Micromanaging? Let’s Talk Baby Steps
We hear about positive thinking and that we should always “think positively!”, trying to keep any and all “negative” thoughts out of our head. I don’t find that very useful. Trying to micromanage our thoughts is hard. Rather, what if…
Getting Through The Struggles
Struggles, challenges, wells of pain, and really, really messy times happen — for all of us. One of the things I’ve found helpful in climbing out of worry, stress, overwhelm, and depression: ditching the fight and reminding myself life is…
Give Me Promises, Labels, and Answers
I want badly to have things neatly sorted out. To know. To have all questions answered. As if somehow the certainty will help me feel better. Because then there won’t be the discomfort of the unknown. That once everything is…
Do You Like Structure? I’ve Been Ambivalent
Today I’m thinking about structure and schedules. This brain dump moves around a bit (my thought process is rarely linear; in most posts I try to make it more so, though today I’ll let it dance where it wants). There…
Suicides, Depression, Avatars
My human heart hurts when I hear about a suicide. Two have been in the news this past week and more have happened I haven’t heard about. RIP, Kate and Anthony (and all of those whose names I don’t have).…
Creating Their Own Content
The world of our children and their experience is different than ours is/was. And that’s not good nor bad. It simply is. However, the general human underpinnings, feelings and emotions, yearnings and wanting to belong — it’s there for our…
Depression, Illness View, Power
Today I offer a musing on my experience with depression. I struggled with a severe bout of depression in my later teens and twenties, and the experience and how pieces of depression are part of me continue to inform my…