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Self Care and Sleep
I have partnered with Cozy Earth in exchange for this post. All expressed opinions are 100% my own. Full disclosure. I don’t know about you, but 2020 and the beginning of 2021 were excruciating for me. For numerous reasons, most obviously Covid and all of the unplanned changes that came with the pandemic. One thing that I realized through therapy and inviting friends back into my life in recent months is that self care was not on “my list” of things to do. I had merely been surviving each day, and fighting to simply do that. During the height of the pandemic, I had all four kids at home, two…
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Getting Back to Art & Creating
First, I want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who came, read, commented and shared your personal stories with me on my last post about my miscarriage. There is tremendous healing in reading the kind and encouraging words of others. Both by those who have been there and those who offer their support and sympathy. When the depression had finally lifted, I continued to talk with my counselor and told her how I still felt lost as to who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve been a stay at home mom with side businesses (my blog, Etsy shop, etc.) for several years,…
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life after loss
Wow. Where does the time go? It has been so long since I logged into this blog, that I actually forgot how to! It took me a bit of google searching to remember, but I finally figured it out and I’m back! Something happened in November of last year, that sent me into a downward spiral for quite some time, and then when life got better, I couldn’t find the words or the courage to share it here. I have wanted to share it, or rather, felt I needed to share it, before I could get back to routine blog posts. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it until…
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5 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues (at Home)
Does the time after the holiday season ever get you feeling blue? It does for me. It’s like the bottom falls out after New Year’s and I just don’t know what to do with myself. I miss the music on the radio, the movies on TV, the lights around town. All of the decorations, the magic, the wonder of Christmas is suddenly gone. And we are stuck knee deep in the thick of winter and the long, gray days of…………blah. Well, maybe it’s just because I live outside of Rochester, NY where the sky doesn’t turn blue again until late spring and the snow has been known to stick around through…
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Sticks and Stones: Dealing with the Ugly Side of Social Media as a Blogger and Person of Faith
If you are a blogger, designer, or creative type who puts yourself out there on the internet, you may have had a negative run in or two (or three, or four…) on social media. Most of us have. It is “to be expected.” Normal. Happens all the time. Something to “get over.” But what if you can’t? What if the hurtful words cut deep? How can we manage to keep our self-worth and value in tact while subjecting ourselves to the possibility of rudeness and ridicule? A painful Facebook experience that happened to me a couple of weeks ago, left me contemplating this blog and what I am doing here.…
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When Hope Can’t be Found {personal thoughts on depression and suicide}
Have you ever lost hope? Ever looked in the mirror, with tears streaming down, wishing it could all be over? Ever felt the weight of the world closing in on you? That there might not be a reason to go on? Well, I have. Many times. Much more than I wish in my short 32 years. As I am beginning this post, I am hesitating. Should I write these words? Or should I hit the delete button right now before this gets too messy? I am going to start by saying this post is uncomfortable. Maybe more real than some people will like. Maybe you will judge me. Maybe you will leave…
this creative life
