Riptide

When I had postpartum anxiety, I would spend day after day fighting hard to stop feeling so awful. Honestly, I was in a constant fight or flight state. Over and over, I would say that I was in control of my emotions. As a Christian, I would meditate on scripture, like “Do not be anxiousContinue reading “Riptide”

Made Well-Minded

Hey there 👋  I wanna share some super important info with you:  (P.S. Follow my blog, as well as made_well_minded on Instagram and Facebook for more!) In the U.S., 26% of Americans 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental health disorder in a given year. It is estimated that 20% of children have mentalContinue reading “Made Well-Minded”

Codependency

I started being unkind to myself sometime around when my parents split up. We think things like this are “normal” because they are common. Yet, there is nothing normal about going through the developmental stages of adolescence with two parents in the same house who somewhat suddenly split up. As a child that is veryContinue reading “Codependency”