Mental Health
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Always Learning
My daughter and I had a rough night last night. We’ve hit a sleep regression. The first real regression she’s ever had. She has always been an easy sleeper. She never needed us to stay in the room. She was always good at self soothing. It’s really been quite easy with few random night exceptions. Continue reading
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Daily Prompt 13
What time do you go to bed and wake up currently? On workdays I go to bed at 7am and wake up at 10:30am, if I’m lucky. On days off, it’s a random mess as I’m trying to catch up on lost sleep. I will either struggle with the transition and continue to get 4 Continue reading
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Daily Prompt 11
What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony? Personal harmony? My anxiety. I can remember having panic attacks as early as three years old. It was my sister‘s hula hoop that set me off. Hiding under my blanket, wishing for the noise of the marble in the tube to stop. At the Continue reading
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Him
I miss my dog so much. It’s just over a month since he’s been gone. I’m laying in bed wishing he was here. It just hurts so much. Continue reading
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Constant Anxiety
I am struggling. I find my teeth are hurting from constant grinding. When I am not grinding them, I’m holding my jaw so tight while concentrating on not allowing my teeth to touch each other, that it’s starting to make my jaw hurt. I just finished day 5 at work. That may not seem like Continue reading
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Daily Prompt 8
Well isn’t this a slap in the face? I was going to literally just write about this. The entire reason I started my blog was an attempt to keep track of my journey to find myself again. As I started to commit to more and more people (my work, my husband and eventually my kid Continue reading
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Daily Prompt 3
What’s your favorite thing about yourself? I love myself as a mom. I feel like I’m still a kid, mentally, but that I was forced to grow up in some aspects… Grow up in the best ways. I’m suddenly someone’s default role model and I have to try to forgive myself for not being perfect. Continue reading
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Sleep Deprivation: 0/10, Would Not Recommend
I think I have figured out a great source of the anxiety and depression I struggle with everyday. I’m going to map it out, and it will probably seem obvious to an outsider. Just cut me some slack and remember, when you’re involved, watching everything close up, it’s a lot more difficult to see the Continue reading
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Back to Reality: Post Vacation Stress
This life is crazy and the ups and downs are difficult to take. Yesterday, we got back in town early. Everything was good until we started to decompress. My husband and I ended up in an argument. It was no surprise given we were coming down from vacation cloud 9. Ultimately we worked through our Continue reading
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More Massachusetts
Still in Massachusetts. Almost everyday we have been here, I have found myself at a random body of water. Yesterday I was roped into going to one of those old timey villages where they role play that they are truely living in that time. Too bad it was closed. So we drove around and kept Continue reading
Ash Thoreau 