Mental Health Blog
This mental health blog reflects many years of life in my neck of the woods. You’ll find things I’ve learned and gone through, thoughts and tools that have helped me along my midlife journey.
You will find a variety of topics on these pages. Many are linked to my therapy specialities. Lot’s are just about life, plain old life and living it at midlife.
Rest assured I have not invented the wheel here on these mental health blog pages. I’ve collected stuff along the way of my life’s journey. That includes information, coping tool ideas, practical notions and tidbits of wisdom which you will find in this library of blog posts.
Writing is a tool in itself. Especially when it comes from your heart. It helps solidify knowledge, and recognize emotions too. Also, it helps to validate experiences and is a release as well. Writing has been an important coping tool for me. It is one you just might want to give a try.
My blog I offer to you straight from my heart in hopes you can relate and know you are not alone. I hope you find some encouraging words, coping tools and ideas to tuck away and use as you navigate through your midlife journey!
Jude
Sunny gratitude…
It sure makes a difference when the sun shines. We have more grey days this time of year in West Michigan than sunny ones. Lake Michigan has its influences on keeping us cloudy. So when …
Oh, the old gray mare she ain’t what she used to be…
Ain’t what she used to be…ain’t what she used to be…the old gray mare….she ain’t what she used to be…many long years ago! Boy do I feel that reality! My weekend warrior spring cleaning is …
Spring Cleaning Again…
I’ve started my winter “spring cleaning” house projects. It’s the time of year I go through drawers and wipe them out, dust the backs of hanging pictures, move the bigger pieces of furniture and clean …
The Key to Handling Impermanence
Accepting that things change I so much am a creature of habit who likes things to stay the same. That is unless of course the change is something that I desire, then I go willingly …
That change horse ride again…
How to get back in the saddle and ride It’s that time of year when we think about our life and have a want to make changes. The switch from one year to the next feels …
Imagine…
I must admit I’m grateful the 2017 is almost behind me. The year was a difficult one for me. It included being sick for most of the last three months of it from an upper …
Time and the Grief Process
With time the grief process unfolds... It’s been two months today since our dear Dunkin died. Time marches on ward and so has my grief process. For the first month after losing Dunkin hardly a …
Where oh where did my inspiration go…
Oh where oh where can it be? I’ve been wondering where I left my inspiration to write blog posts. I can’t seem to remember where I put it. It’s been missing for some time now. …
There Is No Place Like Home…
I’ve noticed at different moments in my life a wonderful sense of being at home. It is a warm familiar comforting feeling sense that overcomes me during which I find myself instantly relaxed mind, body …
Four Years Ago…
Tender loss anniversaries... This week marks the fourth anniversary of my dad’s death. Yesterday was the day we brought him home from the hospital after his surgery four years ago and the last time I …
Empty Spaces
We had to say a very sad goodbye to our little Dunkin kitty on July 10th and our house has not been the same. There are so many empty spaces that furry little one once …
Happy Father’s Day to my Dad…
I miss you Dad and really can’t believe this is the fourth Father’s Day without you here. It seems like only yesterday you were home with Mom tending your strawberries and tomatoes and working …
