Grief Cyclic grief Grief that is not but must be You vex me You hold me here You hold me down What is your name?? You wane my hope You make it weak You cause me to doubt what I know what I know could be This is the day for you to show But … Continue reading Easter Vigil
Category: Wellbeing
The Creation of a 3 (Or – Coming Out, pt. 2)
“You should have known that.” Those are the words that have resounded in my head since age 11. There were other words coming to me at that time, of course. Words that told me I was good and kind, smart and capable, needed and wanted. But those words are the ones I could not … Continue reading The Creation of a 3 (Or – Coming Out, pt. 2)
Turning off the light…
Every time I go on Facebook, I "see" my mom. Her little silhouette profile pic with her name and that little green light on the right side of my screen, blinding me while I type. She never added a profile pic to her account. Didn't know how. And I was never home long enough to … Continue reading Turning off the light…
Privilege
“You do know you're better off than most, right? RIGHT???” The second, repeated question came because I didn’t answer the first one. I wasn’t sure exactly what he meant by this. It was my follow-up with my Mayo doctor (an MS specialist) and we had barely started our telemedicine visit when he made this query. … Continue reading Privilege
Coming out…a little bit
I belong to a group called the MS Gym. At the time of this writing, there are 22,467 members in this group – all diagnosed with MS or one of several other illnesses that cause neurological damage and effect mobility. All of them use the exercises designed by the founder of the MS Gym, Trevor … Continue reading Coming out…a little bit
Uncovered
It's not about the papers...
Do you talk to your “self”?
The title of this post is largely rhetorical. Everyone talks to themselves, although on occasion we can convince ourselves that really we’re talking with other people...they just aren’t in the room. We’re replaying the argument we had with our friend last week and trying to figure out where it got derailed. Or we're planning how … Continue reading Do you talk to your “self”?
Let’s Get Physical!!
Staying upright, 2010 In the early 1950s, Murray Bowen shook up the world of psychiatry by theorizing that you couldn’t treat an individual in therapy without exploring that individual’s relationships with the other members of their family. After all, that group of individuals were emotionally connected and what one member did naturally effected the rest. … Continue reading Let’s Get Physical!!