Tag: Mental Health
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Five Stars for Someday, Maybe
Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli – A Five-Star Book Review What would you do if you lost the person closest to you? And how would your response be if that person chose to leave by suicide? That’s what Eve, the protagonist of Someday, Maybe, must experience when she finds her husband, Quentin, in a pool…
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In the Existence of Mental Illness
Book Review The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva Amy is existing. She goes to work, makes excuses to avoid happy hours, and moves through life while knowing that simple existence is not right. She has something, a voice, a compulsion, a suffocating threat to any semblance of the life she used to have.…
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Overthinking About You: A Read-Along
Mental health is a passion for me. I struggle with severe mental illness (SMI), as I’ve shared on here before. But mental illness doesn’t just impact the diagnosed; it impacts their loved ones and anyone close to them. Mental health and relationships come with their own sets of challenges. I am so grateful for my…
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What Anxiety Looks Like
I’ve been fighting back crippling anxiety for a week now. I’ve tried to explain what my anxiety feels like before, but my words don’t seem to accurately define it. I am going to keep trying, though. My Picture of Anxiety
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Unbound: The Story of #MeToo
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke A Five-Star Book Tarana Burke is an activist and the founder of the Me Too Movement that opened the door for thousands of women to finally raise their voices and share their stories of sexual abuse, violence, and harassment.…
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