Transparent Sea, and All Its Colors and Shapes.
On the abysmal screen, where all hues of the visible light spectrum are swallowed, elusive shapes of my precious ones appear.
Browsing Tag:
suicide
Transforming Fear in This Challenging Time.
The Earth is catapulting us into a deeply transformative time of personal growth and opportunity. We are being called to explore what it means to be human.
‘How Are You Really Doing’ Is Not a Rhetorical Question.
The truest act of kindness is listening to others through the bad, good, neutral, really just being there. That's all it could take to help heal someone.
Examine Your Life from Every Aspect.
It becomes exciting to plan the exit strategy from life to afterlife. I say this from losing three people to suicide, all of them in their early thirties.
Landslide: The Rumble and Rubble of My Dad’s Death.
I can’t recall feeling angry with Dad for his death, perhaps that is still to come. I have felt angry that I’ve had to deal with any of it at all.
Unknown Prisoner Suicides: An Inmate Is Still a Human.
When I first stepped into the county jail, I knew his pain, so I share his message on behalf of all the unknown people behind the inmate statistics data.
Funny, You Don’t Look like You Have Mental Health Issues.
We get sick days, not mental health days. It’s okay to have a cold, but it’s not okay to say, “I can’t handle this crap today, I’m staying home.”
Not Alone: Grieving the Loss of My Child. {poetry}
How could they? How selfish? How ignorant for anyone to think they have the right to judge such tragedy and loss? How dare you?
Disconnection and the Epic Wake-Up Call of Parenting.
All who want to die in any given moment feel crippling disconnection... but the silence of shame and the disease of perfectionism keeps us from saying it.
Thank You, Chris Cornell: Death by Default in Detroit.
I can't just sit here and not say anything because 'sobriety' is a big deal to some people and a life or death matter to all of us addicts.