When you live with chronic pain and fatigue, so much feels out of your control. Weather, hormones, stress, the way you slept, any of it can throw your body into chaos. But what we don’t talk about enough is how the way we think, the…
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Finding Happiness When Everything Feels Heavy
Life has a way of throwing all sorts of challenges our way, but there are still countless reasons to be happy. I find that it’s often the small, everyday things that can bring the most joy. Taking time to notice and fully appreciate them is…
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Duloxetine Withdrawal: The Chaos No One Warned Me About
I didn’t plan for this to be a chapter in my life, but here I am…caught in the in-between space where medication ends, and everything else begins again. I’m currently going through withdrawal after stopping duloxetine (which I have been taking for 2 decades), and…
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How is your mental health?
How is Your Mental Health, Really? A Personal Reflection We live in a world where we are constantly encouraged to stay busy, productive, and successful. Between deadlines, social obligations, and the daily grind, it can be easy to forget to ask ourselves one simple question:…
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I’m Always There for Everyone… But Who’s There for Me?
I was three years old the first time the world taught me that my body was not mine. That safety is not guaranteed, not even in the arms that should’ve protected me. And since then, I’ve been surviving. Not living. Surviving. I’ve grown up being…
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30 Coping Skills for Anxiety and Depression
Because your brain isn’t broken, it’s just overwhelmed There are days when anxiety and depression make it feel like your brain has pulled the emergency brake and left you sitting in a storm of overthinking, exhaustion, and emotional fog. You forget everything you’ve learned.You can’t…
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Stop Wallowing in Self-Pity – Here’s How I Did It (and How You Can Too)
Oh well, life can be unfair. Things happen that shake us, break us, and make us question everything. Feeling sad? That’s normal. We’re human. But staying stuck in that dark little corner where you keep telling yourself life is harder for you than anyone else?…
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How To Help Someone With Low Self Esteem?
…and what I’ve learned from dealing with my own, too. Let me start with this: I’m not perfect. I’ve had moments – hell, entire chapters – where I doubted my worth, over-apologized for existing, and convinced myself that I wasn’t enough. So when someone close…
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Embracing Solo Dates: Why Spending Time Alone is the Best Gift You Can Give Yourself
There’s something incredibly powerful about taking time for yourself. In a world that often tells us that socializing is the key to happiness and fulfillment, it’s easy to forget the joy and peace that come from spending time alone. But let me tell you: solo…
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I Will Rise Up – For Those Moments When Your Depression Makes You Want to Give up
I heard this song for the first time a while ago when I was fighting a deep depression. Since then I always see light (like when there’s a beautiful sunset) in the background and think of being powerful and moving all the obstacles when they…