To finish out Mental Health Awareness month, my daughter has bravely agreed to allow me to interview her. She is currently a few months shy of seventeen years old. She started experiencing severe anxiety at age twelve. We hope that her story informs and encourages anyone experiencing mental health challenges. She wants to share anContinue reading “Our Mental Health Journey: Q&A with my 16 year-old daughter”
Category Archives: anxiety
Our Mental Health Journey: Where we are now
Currently, my daughter’s treatment consists of a pediatric psychiatrist through our local hospital and regular visits with a psychologist. She is on medicine to help calm her brain while she learns the tools to cope with her anxiety. Without the medicine, she would be trying to learn tools with a brain on fire. When herContinue reading “Our Mental Health Journey: Where we are now”
Our Mental Health Journey: the Beginning
It is an indescribable feeling, sitting in a psychiatrist’s office with your child for the first time. It is a place I never imagined myself. Standing on the precipice of hope and despair, I knew we needed to be here but wanted to run. I wanted to pretend everything was okay and my daughter’s strugglesContinue reading “Our Mental Health Journey: the Beginning”
Mental Health Awareness
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This month I will have a series on mental health based on my experiences through walking this path with my children, especially my teenager. The series of posts are based on conversations with my sixteen-year-old daughter who has been struggling with depression and anxiety for most of her life.Continue reading “Mental Health Awareness”
Day 50/66
66 Days of the Faithfulness of God Philippians 4:4-9 Link to Facebook Video
Day 49/66
66 Days of the Faithfulness of God Ephesians 1:3-14 Link to Facebook Video
Day 27/66
66 Days of the Faithfulness of God Daniel 3:26-30 Link to Facebook Video
Day 5/66
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Link to Facebook Video
66 Days…
…until the election. Reading one scripture per day, leading up to the election, reminding us of the faithfulness of God. Check back here, Facebook or Instagram.
2020 Whirlwind
Part 1 2020…We can all agree this will be the year we look back on with disdain. “This is 20-20“ no thanks, Barbara Walters. I’ll take “2019” for $1000, Alex. I’m human, you’re human. We naturally want a world with circumstances we can control. But, with each little thing that gets pulled from my white-knuckledContinue reading “2020 Whirlwind”
Leah Lively 