Healing our hearts

Healing our wounded hearts is a lot of fun, isn’t it? What’s often the most difficult at first is trying to find a way of seeing hope. Because when we’re broken, we’re broken. It kind of depends on how our hearts have been wounded. The specific kinds of trauma we endure. Because those traumas, those […]

When you only see despair

The problems often seem too big. The pain can be too intense, squeezing your chest so tight you fear your heart may burst. You can’t see a way forward, and you don’t know how things can be fixed. How can there be any hope at all? I’ve struggled with depression my entire life, riding the […]

When the thrill is gone: Coping with midlife

One of the main reasons I like to write is it helps me process the emotions I feel and the challenging situations I stumble through day to day. By being open about what I experience and how I think, I hope something I say resonates with others going through similar circumstances. That said, I’ve been […]

Why hope matters

Depression comes in many varieties. There’s the subtle type that most of us deal with off and on, a slight melancholy that hits us throughout the day for different reasons and passes quickly. There’s the all-consuming experience of panic, which can make you absolutely desperate and tempt you to make drastic choices for any kind […]

Only one hope

I stopped writing in this space months ago to focus on putting together a book that has been incredibly slow going. I haven’t given up on the book, but my progress is depressing to me. It’s easier to think of jotting down my thoughts within the confines of several hundred words here than in the […]

Love lost and numb

The relationship I’ve been in for the last few months ended the other day. It’s been a bit on-again, off-again as hinted at in other posts of mine over that time frame. For those of you who know me well, the timing is somewhat ironic, as my rock-bottom moment in life came around 10 years […]

Loneliness (and being human)

*sigh* Well, I’m lonely again. Those of us who have been single for any significant period of time can relate, as can a lot of us who are in or have been in challenging relationships. Loneliness is a kind of depression, or it’s at least closely connected. There is a sense of hopelessness and despair […]