Sep 10, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Bruised to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. I am six years-old, living in a dark, musty, cape cod cottage. There are weathered gray shingles and a handful of dusty muntin windows that don’t let in...
Sep 7, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Bruised to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. It sounds melodramatic, but here’s the truth: Death was at my door hour by hour. I was in the throws of an uncontrollable depression, unable to get out of...
Sep 3, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Bruised to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. I have an anomaly in my DNA, an accident of genetics that I now know is Bipolar II or “soft bipolar.” Ninety percent of the time, Bipolar II is hard to...
Apr 14, 2021 | Mental Health, Shadow Work
This Blows My Mind Do you ever get that feeling when a whole bunch of synapses in your brain connect in a new way? You have a breakthrough moment of understanding that changes everything? Thanks to Resmaa Menakem’s NYT groundbreaking bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands:...
Dec 22, 2020 | Mental Health
Bipolar Lurks Under the Surface Threatening All The first time bipolar almost killed me was long before I knew I had bipolar. Living with it, surviving it, would become one of the greatest challenges in my life as it is for millions of others every day. That time, way...
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