Last week was Mental Illness Awareness week, and Friday, October 10, 2014 was World Mental Health Day. I often write about my experience as a mother of a child living with multiple mental illness diagnoses. But last week, I took to social media to talk about it even more, to raise more awareness, all with the hopes […]
Mental Illness Awareness Week – 2014
This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. If you’re new to reading this blog, you may not be aware of the passion I have around this cause. My son, now 12, was first diagnosed with a mental illness at the age of 5, ADHD. In subsequent years, he was also diagnosed with many other mental […]
What Do You Have the Courage to Ask For?
What do you have the courage to ask for? What do you have the courage to work for? What is your life’s passion? What must you do most days of your life, and if you don’t, you feel lost? What makes your heart leap out of your chest with excitement and promise? Have you asked […]
Tomorrow…We Walk for Noah
Tomorrow we walk. If you’re new to this blog, you may not be aware of a cause that is close to my heart, one that I have made my choice and mission to advocate for. Mental Illness. My son, now 12, was diagnosed with his first mental illness at the age of 5, ADHD. As […]
Let Me Just Say To You Mommas of Littles
Let me just say to you mommas of littles that are still…well, they’re still little. Enjoy all the snuggles, hugs, kisses…because damn. When they’re the big 1-2 and in seventh grade, they want nothing to do with you. And it is heartbreaking! The thing is, you know it’s coming. You know it’s the normal transition. […]
Loving Through Silence and Disconnect
Did you know that this blog, Life’s a Disco Ball, is my third blog? I started blogging in 2007, albeit not with any consistency. I’ve been writing much of my life, really. Although in the beginning, somewhere around middle/high school, it was poems about broken hearts and boys. I guess I’ve always had a propensity […]
The Next Day
School. We’ve been at it for what…eight days now? Yes…Eight. Whole. Days. And I found out yesterday that N’s been to ‘room 101’ (detention) seven times already. Most of which were this week. Last week was good. It was soooo good. Like, I was wondering who kidnapped my son and exchanged him with a look […]
Faith is Like…
Remember this Faith journey I’ve been on? The one I’ve been on the last year or so? I talked about it in Claiming Faith As My Own and then again last week when I shared When You Think of Churchy, You Think of Me, Right? Well if you read the latter, you know I signed […]
You Blame Her, You Blame Me
You guys…today was emotional. The discussion happening regarding domestic violence in the mainstream media, social media and among communities is good. It is necessary. But it stirs up pain and emotion for many. For far too long, this topic has been swept under rugs, spoken in hushed tones or ignored altogether. This must stop. And so […]
Just in Case…
It didn’t seem necessary to keep my phone within view, just in case. It was only the first week of school and thus far, it had gone well. Last Friday I was at a women’s writers luncheon. My phone was on silent and in my purse…because, well because it was the first week of school and usually […]
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