Mental Health & Hard Seasons
How to Mom/Dad with Anxiety/Depression.
Practical ways to keep parenting while anxiety and depression are at their worst: one day at a time, stepping away, and being honest with your kids.
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Everything I have written down
Further back in the archive.
Motherhood & Family
Mom(my)
The day the oldest stops saying Mommy and starts saying Mom, what that small edit does to a mother, and the connection she is determined to keep.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Let’s Talk About it (It’s Okay to not be Okay)
What it means to answer honestly when someone asks how you are, and why finding a community changes what a hard mental-health season feels like.
Neurodiverse Parenting
That Time We Put Our Child in a PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program).
Why the family chose a Partial Hospitalization Program for their young son, what the programme involved, and where things stood two years later.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Attempting to Overcome This S.A.D. Season. (Part II)
The practical things that help through a Seasonal Affective Disorder season: yoga, affirmations, book club, bike rides, volunteering and better mornings.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and Me (Part I)
Why autumn brings dread rather than comfort, the stressors that stack up each year, and an honest account of Seasonal Affective Disorder arriving.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Rollercoaster
A guest post by Amberleigh Starr on living with an ongoing mental-health battle, and holding on to the belief that broken crayons still colour.
Motherhood & Family
Voque Parody- 73 Questions
Seventy-three rapid-fire questions answered candidly, from the coffee order to the tattoos, as a way to get to know the person behind the blog.
Motherhood & Family
Fishing is fun (and other not so true stories at our house)
An ordinary afternoon of tree-cutting and fishing turns into exactly the kind of controlled chaos that passes for a normal day at the Bird house.