Warning: Discussions of depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. A friend recently recommended the book The Midnight Library. As soon as I read the description I knew it was something I needed to read. When I was a freshman in college I wrote a story for English class about a girl who attempted suicide. In theContinue reading “Reflection on Depression and Hope”
Tag Archives: Poetry
Limiting Belief: I’m not a writer
I don’t know exactly when I started journaling by hand, but my first online journal started in January 2004 when I was 16. In addition to journaling, I wrote fanfiction [Harry Potter] and poems in high school and college. At some point after 2009 I stopped writing creatively almost completely, but I have always maintainedContinue reading “Limiting Belief: I’m not a writer”
Co-de-what? : Codependent
A few years ago I was having coffee with a friend at her home and venting about life (in this instance all the ways I needed my husband to step up and contribute to our relationship, finances, managing the household, etc. and how his continued refusal to do so hurt and upset me). She saidContinue reading “Co-de-what? : Codependent”