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Do You Fear Happiness?
How often, as children, did we decide to “fly under the radar” and not draw attention to something that brought us happiness because that just created a target? How many of us, as adults, still live with the fear that identifying something that makes us happy only invites someone to hurt us by taking it away? Even when there is no one there to take it, we live with that fear and don’t get too attached to anything.
My hope for all of us is to find a safe place to overcome that and enjoy the things that make us happy.
Blog Carnival for March
I was away from the internet the past few days, so I’m just now getting around to pointing you all to this month’s Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. From my brief glance at it today, it appears there are a few folks in this month’s edition that I am not familiar with. I’m looking forward…
These are Odd Responses to a Mental Health Crisis
We need more resources and more access to care. Not less.Â
We need care located where people live and work so they can remain part of their communities.Â
We need NIH grants to pay for more mental health research.Â
Our government is in the process of doing the exact opposite while claiming to care about mental health.Â
Review – Toilet Paper People by Cherry Tigris
The name of this particular survivor memoir is in reference to tiny people made out of toilet paper, who the author created, and made up personalities and lives for. These people became her friends, and a source of support, while she was living a childhood of horror, terror and physical abuse at the hands of…
