Tag: Mental Health
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When BPD Isn’t BPD: The Quiet Crisis of Misdiagnosed C-PTSD
For a long time, I genuinely believed I had Borderline Personality Disorder. Not because I resonated deeply with the diagnosis, but because a therapist handed it to me when I was raw, confused, heartbroken, and trying to make sense of emotions that felt too big for my body. It was right after a complicated relationship that…
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Abuse Isn’t About the Woman
I’m writing this because I’m angry… Recently, my stepdaughter admitted something awful that her mother said about me: that because I was abused in a previous relationship, I must be the type of woman (quiet and subservient) who tolerates abuse because I choose to stay with her ex husband that she claims has been abusing her…
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Beauty Sick Book Review
In Beauty Sick, Renee Engeln explores how modern society’s fixation on physical appearance quietly erodes self-worth, mental health, and focus. From magazine covers to social media influencers, we are constantly exposed to idealized bodies and faces that are often unrealistic, heavily edited, surgically altered, or otherwise medically manipulated. This constant exposure reinforces the message that a…
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Abuse Isn’t About the Woman
I’m writing this because I’m angry… Recently, my stepdaughter admitted something awful that her mother said about me: that because I was abused in a previous relationship, I must be the type of woman (quiet and subservient) who tolerates abuse because I choose to stay with her ex husband that she claims has been abusing her…
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The Small Habit That Changed How My Body Handles Life (and Digestion)
I started belly breathing because I learned it in Ayurvedic school. Belly breathing is when you inhale slowly through your nose and let your belly expand, then exhale fully and let it soften so the belly should be moving, not the chest. What I didn’t realize at the time was how shallow my breathing had become day to day. Everything…
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The Side Effects They Don’t Tell You About: What Long-Term Benzos and Adderall Use Can Really Do to You
For years, the mental health industry has sold us this idea that a pill is the fastest way out of our pain. A shortcut. A lifeline. A chemical solution for emotional problems that were often created by our environment, our trauma, our relationships, and our lifestyle. And when we’re desperate, hurting, or exhausted from carrying…
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The Hardest Truth Therapy Made Me Face Today
I just walked out of therapy and I feel very unsettled right now. The entire session came down to one thing I really didn’t want to accept. Some people will hurt you and they genuinely do not care. They don’t sit with it. They don’t feel the weight. They don’t lose sleep. They don’t replay the…
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Unfck Your Brain by Faith G. Harper (Book Review)
Honestly I’m really in my self-help books era right now. I’m craving anything that helps me understand my mind, my patterns, my healing, and the way my past still echoes through my present. What struck me most is how compassionate the book is. It doesn’t treat you like you’re broken or weak. Unfck Your Brain isn’t just a catchy…
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – Book Review
I’m currently reading this book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle which centers on living in the present moment to find peace and emphasizing that things like anxiety and worry comes from dwelling on the past or future, and that true self is consciousness beyond the constant mind chatter. It’s seriously changing my life.…
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Honestly, Vanessa 