The Second Before You Respond
— What breaks the whole subsumes it What breaks your heart consumes it Trying to run from your fate is like trying to dodge the wind You’re everywhere and nowhere all at once You’re chaos veiled with...
View ArticleIn Walking, I Find Myself
— When I walk I soar I lift from the pummeled pavement When I stroll I fly from the gravel down below I implore you to find a better way to sift through thoughts than a walk once removed from the...
View ArticleHow To Explain Your Mental Illness
— I posed a couple of questions recently to my Twitter followers: If I were to write a how-to guide for mental health, what would you most want to read? What is the number one problem you need help...
View ArticleHow I Convince My Mind to Inspire My Writing
— Sometimes I feel that all I do is walk around and think. I wonder if it’s a good use of my time. But then I remember that many a great writer did this, writers like Charles Dickens and Friedrich...
View ArticleWhy ‘What Should I Do With My Life?’ is the Wrong Question
— How do you find the one thing that you’re meant to be doing? This is a question that people often ask themselves. I’ve also asked myself this question, and I’ll continue to ask it. I think part of...
View ArticleHow to Explain Your Mental Illness and Share Your Mental Health Story
— I posed a couple questions recently to my Twitter followers: If I were to write a how-to guide for mental health, what would you most want to read? What is the number one problem you need help with?...
View ArticleDistant Spaces
— Distance creates in the mind a fondness for closeness for knowing what is important and what is most meaningful If you take the time to separate yourself from your self You will see what I mean...
View ArticleHope is a Funeral
— Hope is a battle A broken dream A mist, a swamp, a fire Hope is not what you think it is It’s an uplifting funeral pyre — What’s Next? Talk with others. Take action. We are proud of our SOCIAL...
View ArticleMaps Are Liars
— I thought I would find what I was looking for In plans and maps of my dreams But it wasn’t there It wasn’t life It wasn’t what it seemed I thought I could muscle my future Into the broad, idyllic...
View ArticleThe Ever Afterglow
— Life is a rocky landscape It’s a battlefield shorn by love It’s a pockmarked desert It’s caverns of hope It’s the skies raining down from above Life, it’s luminous if you let it And if you don’t Dark...
View ArticleThis is the Only Way I’ve Fought Anxiety
— What does it take to be happy? What does it take to feel good about where you’re going? Is it finding the right job? Is it meeting the right person? I don’t think it’s either of those things. Being...
View ArticleMental Health is a Spectrum
— When I was depressed, I felt disconnected from the world. It’s a hard feeling to describe, that feeling that nothing in the world matters. That no smile is good enough. That each task is pointless,...
View ArticleAchieving Great Mental Health is a Habit
— It’s not a hope or a prayer. It’s a habit. It’s an active willingness to carry on, to do what it takes to learn how to be who you are in this world. Mental health is a rewiring of the brain. It’s a...
View ArticleThe Wind and the Mountaintop
— Can’t catch me the wind whistled to the stoic mountaintop No need to roared the great mountain to his foe Can’t see me snaked the slithering, whistling wind on’t want to bellowed the mountain’s...
View ArticleYou Can Be More
— Being introspective is a blessing and a curse. It’s diving into the dark, damp recesses of my mind. I live so much in my head that I wonder if it’s normal to do that. Now, I don’t mean that I...
View ArticleIt’s Hard to be Happy
— Most people never stop to consider if what they are doing is making them happy. Some people don’t even know what it means to be happy. Do you fall into either one of these camps? Happiness, to me, is...
View ArticleThe Mess is Your Life
— The world can be two things at once It can be utterly confusing and it can be utterly beautiful Both can be true When you take sides for no reason at all you take your understanding and you squeeze...
View ArticleAlways Already Begun Again
— The moment before you meet the person who will change your life What are you doing? Are you standing at the precipice of a clashing change a clanging notion that rejects reality as you know it? Or...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Good Enough
— The pursuit of good enough is a dangerous road fraught with heartache and longing of old It’ll take you down if you let it it will It will leave you out in the cold . The pursuit of good enough is a...
View ArticleSleepwalking Is a Sin?
— Sleepwalking is a sin they say They tell me that it won’t lead anywhere That I won’t find in my dreams what I can’t yet see in my mind I say that sleepwalking has its benefits It lets me cover...
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