Point of Impact.
Peer Specialist Training is one of the most challenging and impactful turning points in my life thus far and it is only day 4. I have always had a knack…
Tag: Mental illness
Peer to Peer.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons…
Cadence | Chapter 1.
The phone rang and crackled, sure to be bugged as I picked up the line. “There isn’t much time. The marriage already happened so it doesn’t even matter,” he confessed.…
Trick of the Mind | Chapter ? (ish) …
“I know you’re aching, but there’s greatness brewing inside of your suffering, ya know,” she said with a flick of her cigarette as they rounded the bend in the road…
Niagara. Chapter 7.
The hairs rose up in waves across my neck as he leaned over and whispered in his psychotically-tilted voice, as it always seemed to be, “All the most brilliant minds…
Summit.
I saw the way they looked at me. Like deer stunned in headlights. It was as if they weren’t granted the right to tell me what they saw in me.…
Unfollow Me.
He escaped into freedom and we should have let him go because at the threshold of every door were ghosts of chaos just waiting to get in. And they were…
Stigma. It Matters.
In all my years dealing with Mental Illness and Intellectual Disabilities, I have never once given up on those closest to me .. my Mother and Sister. Neither did my…
