Recently someone asked me if I am going to do my typical series of posts on grief and the holidays. No. I'm not. The truth is I am tired of grief. I have been posting about grief and the holidays and grief and birthdays and grief and anniversaries and grief in general for over 10 …
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My Personal Strategies for Moving Through Sadness, Change, and Hard Life Places
Venus McFly fascinates me. My post today from my personal Facebook page... In the last few days I've had multiple conversations about depression and grief, and I thought I would share some of my "wisdom" here, too. First, when my husband moved out, mom died, husband died, stepfather blamed me for Mom's death, brother went …
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Being the Prevention for Suicide
We know the number one predictor of suicide is isolation. That could be physical isolation such as someone is alone most of the time due to physical limits, due to mental or emotional limits, or due to choice. It could be mental emotional isolation such as feeling like no one cares about you, that the …
Suicide: Why Don’t “Strong” People Talk?
In my previous post I made reference to strong people still facing incredibly hard things and needing a place to talk and be safe. In several conversations I have had over the years the topic of strong people not asking for help has been tossed in, and usually there is a tone of criticism and …
What is Your Name: Who Has the Right to Decide
Last week I finished the series on Family Predators and left Friday hanging with a post asking, "What is Your Name?" In that post I said, "Your name isn’t what people call you. Your name is what you live into. What is your name?" In that moment I was thinking of my name and the …
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Family Predators: What You Can Do, Part 8
Throughout my series on Family Predators, I've talked about family predator culture and its impact on one's personal life. In today's final post of the series, I want to look beyond survival and escaping to changing the story. In previous posts I said I stopped enabling family predator culture in my life by confronting my …
Family Predators: It Stops with You, Series Part 6
In part four of this series, Family Predators, I talked about why it is hard it is to walk away from family predator culture. However, I know quite a few people who have done it, including myself, and with my friends' permission, I would like to share why and how we walked away. For a …
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Family Predators: Why It is Hard to Just Walk Away, Series Part 4
I think it is really important to understand why it is so hard to walk away from families who protect predators and have a culture of abuse and perversion, not just to explain it to people who have never been in a family that protected predators but for those who have. I have spoken with …
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