Don’t Forget MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS

I have been encouraged by the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement and pray it will make a positive change in America … More

Life is Fragile — Handle With Care

It has almost been two and half years since my overdose. I have also been psychotropic medication free for most … More

Shame Ate My Soul – My Book is Published (finally)

My memoir is finally a book. It is done. It is completed. Finished. My book is published and is available … More

Find Your Thing to Recovery

For years I was too busy surviving the pain of mental illness to fully experience the beauty of living. For … More

The Return of My Mental Illness Symptoms

Today, I am reminded of the torture mental illness caused in my life for over twenty years. I am reminded … More

Sarah Rose and the Mental Wellness Club

We held hands and smiled at each other as we walked to her room. “What does that say?” I asked … More

Find Your Heaven in a Cup – a poem and a song

I’m blessed to be alive, so I continue to strive to live in the moment. Be here now. I … More

The Fallen

The Fallen Autumn leaves floating, falling, swirling, twirling, dancing through the air. Gently landing over a crispy golden brown covered ground where … More

My Story’s the Opposite of EVERYTHING We’ve Been Taught About Mental Illness

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. One year, six months and five … More

Beyond Hopeless – and a poem

I wrote the following poem titled Hopeless for a poetry contest with the theme of pain. Although I am blessed … More