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Mental Health on a Schedual
Every day of life is hard in different ways for many folks around the world. So recently because I want to write more about mental health and less about my personal shit, I’ve been looking for folks who are writing about mental health to see what they’re saying, experiencing, and sharing, with the world. One…
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If God Could Speak…
What would God Say? I don’t think, and I haven’t for a while now, that God is as all-powerful as people believe. And if God were all-powerful, then I’d seriously have to question God’s politics, because I don’t see the fair and just world that I was brought up to believe in. I see trauma,…
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The Other B Word, By Dae
Every once in a while, and not often enough for my liking, I love to share a post that evokes something in me. The truth of it is I don’t read enough WordPress.com blogs, but I am going to make a concentrated effort. This is a really great piece by Dae, who asks us to…
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Survivor’s Connection 3 Fundraiser
At Surrey Urban Mission Society, I worked my way up from cleaning toilets to cooking, to eventually managing other volunteers and staff, helping folks enter recovery programs, and creating programs for women and at-risk youth in the community. For the last several years I haven’t really known what I was meant to do, and then…
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Stand Up For Yourself, Because No One Else Will
My circle knows my story. They know that when I was a kid my mom’s best friend married a serial rapist and cult leader, who then went on to hurt thousands of women across several continents. He has been in prison for 125 years. I did not make this up, the law is on my…
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What To Do When Your Doctor Doesn’t Believe You…
I realize now, because I am (let’s be honest) not overly original, that lots of patients have doctors who don’t believe them. From talking to some of my friends I’ve learned many of the people I know and love are dealing with symptoms that are going ignored but these doctors, because they aren’t trained to…
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Mental Health & Rehabilitation
So my mom has a concussion. She was hit in the head several months ago by a woman who came into her workplace and started harassing folks. Mom turned her back and the woman smacked her in the head. The most interesting thing about this situation is that it’s helped me to understand my mom…
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I Have Hearing Problems!!!!
This is amazing, because of the head trauma that I experienced from being hit as a child, by one of my abusers, causing hearing problems, has been driving me crazy my whole life, and I genuinely thought I was crazy. Turns out, I have hearing loss. For years I’ve been reading lips instead of looking…
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The Church Will Never Accept You…But I will
This is a “Dear John,” letter to all those who are feeling unloved right now, by their spiritual community. For many years after I turned 11 and was molested in the church, I felt like God personally, was attacking me. I couldn’t differentiate between Good and Evil or God and Satan because everyone around me…
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I Don’t Have A Plan, But I Do Have A Goal
I walked 4-5 kilometers by myself today. I’m pretty impressed. Sure, I used to walk through Vancouver, Surrey, North Delta, and New West, all by myself lots, but that was the before times. Before I remembered everything and sat down to start writing it all out. I’ve come a long way, but I resent that…
Loud Mouth Brown Girl 