Community is such a very precious thing. My earthly Father, though he was not perfect, taught me what a loving father is like. Continue reading A Father Who Led Me to Community
Personal Experience: The Insurance Tightrope Walk
Every time I tried to get my prescription filled, insurance kicked back that they needed “prior authorization” from my doctor. This happened every time I tried to get it filled, regardless if there was a change in dose or not.Continue reading Personal Experience: The Insurance Tightrope Walk
Finding Hope in Love
In all my articles to date, I have presented my interpretation of some very abstract virtues such as hope and love; however, I would like for you to consider the fact that these virtues can be developed in very specific and concrete ways such as self-care, personal responsibility, and reading the testimonies of others who have experienced circumstances you may or may not have found yourself in.Continue reading Finding Hope in Love
Suffering and thankfulness? It’s how we’re all connected
Why do bad things happen to good people? It is one of the most written about problems in religious writing. I can’t answer for you, I can only answer for me. But I can tell you how I answer this question for myself.Continue reading Suffering and thankfulness? It’s how we’re all connected
My Journey Through Mental Illness
I view myself as a child of God who struggles with life on life’s terms which happens to include a serious mental disorder. Although I identify as a Catholic Christian, I am beginning to seek an understanding of other faith expressions as an expression of my love for God’s creation.Continue reading My Journey Through Mental Illness
Virtues in Recovery
As an individual who has suffered a considerable amount of emotional trauma in my adolescent years (typically an emotionally volatile period of life), I have found this goodness and love—the most fundamental virtue of my relationship with my creator—in the early years of my childhood, which has paved the way for my personal recovery through mental illness and has revealed abundant avenues for immense personal growth.Continue reading Virtues in Recovery
An Incongruence in Recovery
In the past, it felt like it was my fault that I was not “recovered” from my illness. Some days you do it. Some days you do it better than others. But every day I’ve survived with this illness is a triumph of the human heart and mind.Continue reading An Incongruence in Recovery
A Poem
“I come to you, hold you
in these arms grown strong,
and tell you what I know—
it gets better.”Continue reading A Poem
Sabotage or Saving Grace? Psychiatric Diagnosis Can Be Both
“His words had set off a chain reaction, the beginning of an epiphany that would leave me finally free to reject the stigma of being “the bad child,” and move toward the freedom of self-love and healing.”Continue reading Sabotage or Saving Grace? Psychiatric Diagnosis Can Be Both
A Poem
When you have to mourn
Then mourn.
When you have to cry,
Then cry.
It’s head down and on his knees
That a man remembers how to fly.Continue reading A Poem