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
Many, many thanks…
This spring I began watching the war drama series “The Pacific” which is about the US Marine Corp’s actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations during WWII. It highlights the first Marine Division and the …
Some coping tools to help with our long term pandemic…
The last 14 months have been so very stressful for us all. We have been dealing with a global pandemic that the whole world was terribly ill prepared for. It has been so outside of …
Happy Mother’s Day!
I truly am strong because of the women in my life who’ve raised me! And they are many, many, many in number—from my mom, to my dear sister, to my grandma’s, to some aunts and cousins …
‘Me and My Bug Friend…’
'Walkin’ down life’s avenue…' Let me introduce my newest friend to you: Mr. Bug! Mr. Bug came to visit a couple of weeks ago when early spring melted into summer and our screen-less windows …
My Self-Caring Things
Dew drops on grass blades and tootsies on kittens Hot tea with milk cream and warm socks a fittins’ Delight when my in-box email tone pings These are a few of my self-caring things. ‘Zero Water’ with my …
“Spring, summer, winter and fall…
...The one I love the best of all is spring.” I wrote that poem as a young teen and in the spring season of renewal I am often reminded of the verse I wrote so …
My Little Helpers
Today I moved this piece from the front home page of this website. I am making changes and never want to forget how this website started. I want to share this with you my rental …
I’m BACK!
Hello Gentle Reader, I’m B-A-C-K…as my buddy AAALLLLVVVVIIIINNNN of the Chipmunks would say! It has been a very long time…way too long…been a dark dreary couple of years since I last wrote a blog post. I’d …
Happy New Year 2019
2019…that number is an amazing one for me to see on the calendar. As a kid back in the 1960’s and 70’s the year 2000 seemed incomprehensible! Now on the cusp of 2020 it’s almost …
From my heart to yours…
Dear Gentle Reader- I wish for you a peaceful heart this holiday season. This wish I realize is a rather tall order for us humans to achieve especially during this season that promises much and often …
Life is a bitch…
And then you die. I recall the first time I ever heard this saying and how ghastly I felt hearing it. I took it as a statement of how hopeless this person felt about her …
Quiet Renewal
Sometime earlier this year I fell off the meditation horse and have gotten back up on it and been riding again. By that I mean spending time in meditation most days. My mind body …
