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  • Who Am I?

    We’re mighty masterpieces, sculptures that started out as a huge boulder of marble. The creator chiseled away painstakingly but joyfully creating until the masterpiece revealed itself. Do you ever wonder what made the creator stop? Not one more clink of… Continue reading

    Who Am I?

  • Daddy? Daddy? No! Don’t Leave Me Daddy!

    This was my soul’s cry when my dear daddy left this earth on November 20th 2018. Since that time I’ve been angry, distant from belief in God and faith in the human experience. Today, I chose to finally leave the… Continue reading

  • The INSIDE OUT Project

    If you haven’t heard of it I’ve provided a description below from the website. It’s happening all over the world, but right now it’s happening in our very own backyard, Montgomery, Alabama. So what does this mean for Montgomery? My… Continue reading

  • Confessions of Mental Illness

    When sharing my mental illness, what I’ve come to expect are words of acceptance, encouragement, and support mixed with contradicting non-verbals, looks of unacceptance, caution, and at times even fear. I’ve been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, and PTSD.… Continue reading

  • The Healing House: My Happily Ever After (Excerpt 6)

    Here we are my friend, Exactly where I’d hoped we’d be. The men are in the living room, Football blaring from the TV.   The sounds so exciting, I can’t help but stop and listen. They’re smells of dinner throughout the house,… Continue reading

  • The Healing House: The Looney Bin (Excerpt 5)

    NOTE: Please know that this story has a happy ending, one that I am pleased to share with you. This is my last writing about the dark side of mental illness. I’m excited to begin writing about and sharing my victory. I’d hoped to… Continue reading

  • Healing from the Disease of Perfectionism

    A good friend shared what she was reading about perfectionism. What she explained rang so true to me. It made me realize the core of my issues, the deepest root of evil in the tree that is my life, is… Continue reading

  • The Healing House: Final Touches (Excerpt 4)

    Well we had a bit of a setback. My visit last week literally made me sick. I spent a good hour or so with you, and ended up in the Emergency Room that evening. I found you in the worst… Continue reading

  • VOL 2 The Healing House: Momma Do You Believe in Monsters? (Excerpt 3)

    The next significantly traumatizing event I can remember happened at a party me and two of my best friends went to one night when we were around the age of sixteen. I remember being so excited because I was finally… Continue reading

  • VOL 2 The Healing House: Once Upon a Time (Excerpt 1)

    I’ve experienced love on many levels in my lifetime, and from my experience, true love, real love is much like having a baby. It’s something that starts to grow in you even before you know it’s there. I grew up… Continue reading