Minds

Over the years, I've compiled a list of things I look for as a woman, mother, health advocate, and human. I firmly believe that the relationship you have with your doctors and healers is paramount to your overall well-being.

For me, after growing up in evangelical purity culture, few things have been as healing and empowering as shopping.

If it's okay for other people not to be okay, I have to give myself the same permission.

When you can’t trust your perception of reality and the things that you are experiencing, who or what can you trust?

Strange, that bad mood of yours won’t disintegrate with someone shaking you and shouting “Snap out of it!” That alllllways does the trick.

This has been a week of shitty news. And for me, the eternally glass-half-full kind of girl, that says a lot.

“You have nine new messages.”

I could tell you the story of the eating disorder itself, but there’s a lot of good reading out there about that. What I want to talk about is recovery.