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
‘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 …
Giving Thanks And Experiencing Grief
Gathering and remembering... Gosh it's time of year for giving thanks and grief experiencing too! I can’t quite believe it is that Turkey Day time of the year. I missed fall somewhere along the way. …
A Carpet of Color
It has once again been a spell since I’ve written a post…last weekend I enjoyed a walk on a carpet of colorful leaves that was delightful. This weekends color has faded some but the golds …
Geese Tales…
I spent the work week last week in Troy Michigan at a seminar that was excellent and kept my interest for 4 days. I stayed at a Hilton Hotel in the midst of an area …
