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I was never officially tested, evaluated or diagnosed with ADHD/ADD. It simply wasn’t a common diagnosis when I was growing up.  Especially when you didn’t have the “H”/Hyper piece of…

**This is not a political post but one to bring awareness of how harmful words can be to  society.** One of my greatest passions is mental health and ending the…

I was first introduced to weighted blankets and weighted vests when I was teaching children with autism.  We had a couple of weighted vests in the classrooms and some had…

When you live with depression for most of your life, you end up trying almost anything to help keep it away or get it to not stay around long.  About…

Affirmations are something new to my daily routine but they have proved to be such a positive addition that I wanted to share a few ideas on how to create…

It’s no secret that insurance coverage for mental health issues is severely lacking.  Most people understand that there are expenses that come with therapy and seeing a psychiatrist whether they…

PTSD are 4 letters we hear quite often now.  PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  We are slowly becoming more aware of the long term effects of trauma on…

Ahh, pets! It seems you are either someone who wants pets or you don’t. Well, for years, I fell in the latter category.  It wasn’t that I didn’t love animals…

I love to travel and we love to travel as a family.  Road trips were our main form of travel when our four sons were growing up. Even now, we…

Journaling has been a newer activity for me. Sure, there were times in my youth and teen years that i kept a diary, but that was a different activity.  When…