On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, HealthyPlace.com launched a campaign called “Stand Up for Mental Health”. The goal of this campaign is to work towards shattering the stigma of mental illness by encouraging people to share their personal stories in hopes that others will “stand up” and share their stories as well. You can read more […]
Exciting News from FarFromParadise.org
Some pretty exciting things are happening around here at the FarFromParadise.org “Headquarters” and I am kicking off the New Year with a couple of exciting announcements! To start off, I am very excited that the production of Next to Normal is going to be at the Geva Theatre (Rochester, NY) from January 8, 2013 through […]
You Can’t Heal What You Don’t See
Welcome to 2013! If you are like me, you have taken some time to contemplate and review the past year. I like to do an inventory of what went well, what went askew and what, if anything, really went off the rails. The good news is that most of the past year was pretty darn […]
Caring for the Mentally Ill
The recent tragedy in Newtown, CT launched a national, if not global, discussion around mental illness and caring for the mentally ill. The need for better understanding, a higher level of care, more resources and greater support for both the patients and the caretakers has been brought out into the light. The conversations are frequent […]
Bringing Balance Home
This article was originally published on the IRoc Yoga site on November 15, 2012. Please visit IRocYoga.com and see the wonderful on-line yoga community that is growing there! Enjoy! One thing that I have learned going through a major mental health related crisis with my son, is that balance isn’t always easy to find. Never […]
What Came Next
In my last blog post, Now What?, I talked about the myriad of emotions that come up when faced with a crisis and how important it is to work on self forgiveness. What came next for me, and honestly was in parallel with dealing with the emotional side of the crisis, was identifying support. When […]
Sunshine Award!!!
Last week, I was surprised and humbled to be given a peer blogger award, the Sunshine Award, by my friend and fellow Mental Illness Blogger, Addy, who writes one of the most raw and real blogs I have found about living with the challenges of mental illness. Please check out his blog myjourneywithdepression.wordpress.com. The Sunshine […]
What to Expect, When you’re not Expecting
Our expectations are nothing more than the stories we create for the purpose of looking ahead at how we would like life to play out. (I wrote about expectations vs. hope here) As parents, we begin this expectation creation process from the moments after we find out we are going to bring a child into […]
Do the “Thing” that Scares You
The woman next to me at yoga doesn’t usually take the Boot Camp class, but it was so nice to see her there. Before class started, we talked at length about our children and tattoos (two of my favorite subjects). It’s always nice to chat with her; she looks me right in the eyes. We […]
