What Does Self Care Look Like For You?
The photo above is what self care looks like to me, and the thing is, for many of you, that is probably not the first thing you thought of when you saw it. Thing is, that’s perfectly OK. Over the … Continued
Celebrities and Mental Health – Trendy?
Interesting discussion on this podcast episode about celebrities opening up about mental health issues, and whether it’s a good or bad thing. I do believe, overall, it helps any time someone is willing to talk about dealing with mental health … Continued
Social Media and Mental Health – Stop Comparing
So much about social media is fake, yet we all make the mistake of comparing what we do privately to what other people post for public consumption. This book, while dark at times, is reminding me that everyone is fucked … Continued
You Don’t Get There All At Once
During the holiday break, I was lucky enough to get to spend some time offline, taking in some new Louisiana Holiday traditions and visiting with family. One of the more relevant conversations that we had to readers of this blog … Continued
Every Individual Has a Story
If you spend much time reading about mental health issues, or child abuse issues, you will eventually make your way to quite a large number of articles that encourage people to speak out and tell their story. We see it … Continued
Why Do We Need a Separate Reason to Support Men Getting Help?
As many of you know, I read a lot of articles on abuse and mental health in an effort to share them on the News and Reviews site, or the various social media platforms. Given that, what I’m about to … Continued
Thoughts on Self Care
If you spend much time reading or researching information on mental health online, eventually you will come across articles talking about practicing self-care, or even self-love, though I’m not a big fan of the latter because, let’s face it, we’re … Continued
You Don’t Expose Truth By Spreading Lies
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the survivor community recently, and finally decided to say something about it after a recent post on Facebook this past weekend. The trend is of spreading “news” from clearly fake news websites in order … Continued
Intention and How Social Media Robs Us Of It
I wrote about this video on my tech blog earlier this week, because websites, social networks and pretty much everything on the internet is in constant battle for our attention. In the video, Tristan Harris talks about our intentions, and … Continued
Advocate “Heroes”
Recent news in the survivor community has reminded me of something I wrote over 5 years ago when Joe Paterno passed away. I’m not going ti get into the details of what happened and to who, because I wasn’t involved … Continued