Today I woke up more clear-headed than I have in centuries! The ebb and flow of anxiety and depression has become less severe. I feel fatigued at times if I try to do too much, or don’t keep my food intake up. While all is not perfect, I am feeling…
View More Food for Fun – Day #10
Three years ago, I was involved in a car accident that changed my life forever. Driving 65 mph on a heavily traveled highway, pelted by the torrential rain of a tropical storm that was moving up the northeast coast, a pickup truck pulling a trailer entered the highway from a…
View More A Word About Trauma – Day #8 & #9
Our modern culture has, in my opinion, a tendency to pull things apart into quantifiable pieces. Our society has become so complex and diverse that our drive to understand and manage it, has led to habits of thought that compartmentalize. We judge from a distance what we do not know or…
View More The Body, Mind, Spirit Connection – Day #7
I’m completely blown away by how much energy I have in such a short amount of time. At times I don’t think my body knows what to do with it, as I often feel keyed up (for lack of better expression) or HOT! I think I’m past the hot flash…
View More Hyped Up and Nowhere to Go – Days 5 & 6
My family moved from a quaint little town not far from Erie, PA, to a small paper mill town on the Androscoggin River in Maine. My father, an electrical engineer, was perhaps, taking a step up the corporate ladder. Just shy of my third birthday, my mother, my two older sisters…
View More Coming Full Circle – Day #4
I’m rarely at a loss for words, at least in written form, for today I find myself on a plateau of some sort. Yesterday, from about 3 o’clock on was torture, in some sort of nebulous, nondescript way . I was hungry but I didn’t want to eat. I didn’t…
View More There are No Words – Day #3