Daily Prompt - Heal The word "heal" can take on a whole different meaning when you have a chronic illness. I remember the first thing they told us at my pain management program was "We are not here to take your pain away. If you could be healed from it, you wouldn't be here." The …
Mental Illness and Toxic Relationships
One of the saddest side-effects of mental illness can be the loss of relationships. Sometimes it is the other person backing away, sometimes it is you having to make a choice between health and the relationship and other times it is a combination. During 2016 I have had to deal with a few losses and …
Super Bowl Sunday – Thanks, Dad
I got my "love" of sports from my dad. I use quotations because since he passed, I have realized that it was actually the fact that we could have quality time together and not the sport itself....any sport. I have written before that my relationship with my parents was rocky at the best of times. …
Being Lydia! 