When my TMS therapy started to kick in, the first thing I wanted to do was to write more. I checked out a couple of books on writing from the library and I’m using my blog as a platform to complete some of the tasks. You may be familiar with The Artist’s Way, and one of the books, The Right to Write, is by the same author, Julia Cameron. The other book was suggested by a group that worked through a JC book together, it is Writing as a Path to Awakening by Albert Flynn DeSilver, which is designed to Read More
Tag: Memoir
100 Things That I Love – in no particular order
My oldest kid My youngest kid My big, crazy family My pets My awesome friends My tattoos James Taylor Heavy Metal music All the weird alternative bands of my youth Autumn Craft Fairs Thanksgiving Eureka Springs Concerts Historic Hotels The 2014 Prius V My iPhone My Dragontree Apothecary Dreambook and Planner The internet Giving Free Mom Hugs Talking to friends I have had for 30+ years Cheese Pens, markers, Sharpies Having my own linktree (anyone can have one) 🙂 Writing Reading Talking about books/book clubs Trying to be crafty Coffee “Riding around with the radio up and the windows down” Read More
Changing Seasons
I am starting this post on Labor Day, the unofficial end of Summer. The mornings are starting to be a little cooler; the oppressive heat doesn’t last as long. Kids are back in school, and Halloween decorations are making an early appearance. The seasons are changing. This is my favorite shift of the year. My mood usually starts to pick up, and I look forward to milestones in the last months of the year. l have been doing some writing exercises, and one of them suggested writing about “I love fall leaves.” I am going to share what I wrote Read More
Adventures with TMS – Part 1
The past few years have been a struggle. You can probably relate. My mental health has gone from alright to bad to worse. It feels like my brain has literally abandoned me. I’ve been diagnosed with a slew of things, one of which is “treatment resistant depression,” which simply means that nothing helps. This is where it comes in handy to have a popular therapist who is very busy with lots of patients. When something works for someone else, I get to hear about it, which is how I heard about TMS. Keep reading below or watch my daily Tiktoks Read More
2022 First Half Update
We are at the halfway point of the year, and it’s time to check in. Normally, this would be an update on where I am with my goals for the year. This post will encompass some of that, but it will mostly be me talking about where I am now, how I got here, and where I’m trying to go next. This hasn’t been a very productive year, and we all know that our worth is based on our ability to produce, right? So this will be me trying to work through a lot of that. I have been off Read More
My Favorite Things – Mental Health Edition
May is Mental Health Awareness month. My mental health is not good. To even say that is an understatement. I wish I could blog more, but right now one post ever couple of months is the best I can do. If I told you how many times I worked on and edited this post, it would be quite embarrassing. This post is a shameless self-promotion by way of sharing Amazon Affiliate links, but it is also a real list of things I use to help me through the dark days of a “mental health crisis” as one doctor called it… Read More
Goals Update – End of First Quarter 2022
This is only my second blog of 2022. I haven’t written since I set out my goals for the year. I knew this would be a challenging year, but I didn’t know how truly difficult it would prove to be. I’m still in the midst of a mental health crisis, formerly known as a good old nervous breakdown. I am tempted to say this is my second in two years, but honestly, this has been ongoing since August 2019. I won’t dwell here and now on how it’s really NOT “okay to not be okay,” but I want to document Read More
2021 Year in Review
My blog has been silent for a while due to a mental health crisis, but I feel it is important to take time at the end of the year for reflection and introspection. This has been my space for an annual review for several years, so I am coming out of my shell long enough to write this. I’m starting to write this on the winter solstice, and it may take several days to complete, but during this darkest time of year I need to give myself whatever time and space necessary for this process. The past few years have Read More
2021 Second Quarter Goals Update
We have reached the midpoint of 2021, and that means it is time to check in our how we are doing with the goals we set for the year. This feels like another tough year, so don’t be hard on yourself if you aren’t where you would like to be. It is never too late for a fresh start. Perhaps you could benefit from some goals around rest and self-care. Read on to see how I incorporate those into my goals. Trina’s Strategies for Goal-Setting Success The header above is a link to some of my top goal-setting tips. The Read More
2021 First Quarter Goals Update and Books I Read in March
I’ve typed a first paragraph a few times and deleted it. What do I want to say about the first three months of 2021? They happened. There has been good stuff and difficult stuff. I never made a post about what my goals are for 2021. That’s okay. I will just jump in here and tell you how I am doing with them. I made progress on some goals, and I read some books. Let’s talk about that. Goals So Far Activity. One goal is to attend another 125 Pure Barre classes by the end of the year. That will Read More