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Saturday, April 12, 2014

“There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen

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Savanna said...: Great quote and so very true!; 6:49 AM
Amelia Purdy said...: Thanks, Savanna :); 1:19 PM

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Emma OSborne: Five Things I Learned Writing Grief Eater - Visceral, gritty, and unforgiving, GRIEF EATER is a zombie story like you’ve never read before. When Kristina rises from her violent death, she’s not the ...
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Dark Thoughts

Everyone Has A Story, Here's One Of Mine - I've been thinking of writing an autobiography or memoir, but it just never comes together for me, but I figured if I write one story at a time and post i...
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Skinnytaste

Thirty Minute Sheet Pan Gnocchi and Sausage Dinner - Need an easy dinner with minimal cleanup? This sheet pan gnocchi and sausage is one of those recipes that feels way more impressive than the effort it take...
2 days ago
A World Outside My Window

A Knife, a Piece of Pizza, and the Invisible Walls of Motherhood Anxiety - Every parent dreads the phone call that starts with the exact same sequence of words: *"Your child is fine, but..."* Your heart instantly drops into your ...
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JT Twissel

Feeling crabby - Memorial Day is my least favorite day of the year even though it often coincides with my birthday. There’s nothing grimmer than a day set aside to honor th...
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Bipolar Burble Blog | Natasha Tracy

The Antidepressant Deprescribing Myth RFK Jr. Wants You to Believe - [image: Hands hold a cardboard sign reading “Deprescribing can help” against a blurred city street background.] Doctors being “paid to deprescribe” antidep...
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This Crazy Little Farm | Life is Messy and Things Aren't Always Little on this Crazy Little Farm

Dear Mama - Dear Mama, How has it been a year now since you’ve been gone when it seems like just yesterday you left? Your baby, that stoic youngest granddaughter, she ...
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deconstructing healing - For a long time, healing became its own cycle for me. It was almost like I was waiting until I was fully “better” before… The post deconstructing healing...
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Rachel Keerie

I Read Carnival Blues - I’m a big fan of the English author Damien Boyd, and his twelfth book in the DI Nick Dixon series did not disappoint. It featured something I’d never heard...
9 months ago
Chopping Potatoes

Italian Hospitality - Her kitchen is tiny – the size of a large cupboard – but perfectly arranged and stocked so that she has everything at hand when I drop by to discuss when w...
2 years ago
Musings of an Unapologetic Dreamer

- *Taps microphone* It's been over five years. Is this thing still on??
2 years ago
Daily (w)rite

Ten Tips to Create Tension in Fiction - Here on Daily (w)rite, as part of the guest post series, it is my pleasure today to welcome Barbara Copperthwaite, a bestselling author of several psycho...
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Time To Change - Bipolar

It is vital that people continue to work together to challenge the remaining stigma - [image: John shares his experience as a Time to Change Champion] Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, mental health was not talked about – or, rather, if it ...
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Bipolar Beat

Turning Out the Lights on Mania: Dark Therapy - Heading into Daylight Savings Time here in the Northeast, we are facing the darker, shorter days of winter. For many people that also means a dip in mood...
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BiPolar-The-Enemy-Within

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Suddenly Bipolar

Just Some Thoughts - My relationship – so beautiful, so loved, yet I find it hard to talk about myself. More than social anxiety, just not having the words. But I love her more...
6 years ago
The Scarlet B

Whups - It’s been… longer than I intended since I last posted here. I’ve been productive though! While my plans for socks last year ended up postponed until this y...
6 years ago
Short-Winded BlogShort-Winded Blog

Beauty in the Hellscape - Two things happened today. One: While we were driving, my friend spotted a tiny, raggedy pup frantically running down the sidewalk of a busy street and hea...
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Can the gut microbiome unlock the secrets of aging? - A new study has shown how the gut microbiota of older mice can promote neural growth in young mice, leading to promising developments in future treatment...
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Knowledge Is Necessity

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Thrifty T's Treasures

When The Pain Is Too Much To Bear! - This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for more details. Are you walking down a difficult road where the pain is too much...
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Back again - Back again…..I honestly didn’t think that I would be back here, not blogging, although its been awhile, I mean in this mind set, separated from husband num...
7 years ago
The Klonopin Chronicles

so my ex died a while back wtaf - Hey there. Been AFK for a few months now. I had to take a break to process (whatever that means) the events leading up to and away from the death of the ...
7 years ago
bipolar.and.me

Catching Up Before I Forget... - I have absolutely no idea what I have written to date. Writing is so incredibly therapeutic to me, I am going to get back into the habit of writing regula...
7 years ago
A Tale Of Two Mes

World Suicide Prevention Day 2018 TRIGGER WARNING - I didn't quite make it on the day but here is my World Suicide Prevention Day blog. Suicide is hard to talk about. I know that. No one wants to know tha...
7 years ago
Blogging Astrid

Dropping the Mask: Does it Take a Diagnosis? #TakeTheMaskOff - Today, the theme for #TakeTheMaskOff is diagnosis or self-discovery and its effects on masking. This is applied mostly to the experience of being autistic,...
7 years ago
Rage Against the Minivan

CLAIRVOYANT HEALING, COLON CLEANSING, AND HYPNOTHERAPY: THE WEIRDEST THINGS WE’VE DONE IN THE NAME OF HEALTH | SELFIE EPISODE 45 - Sarah saw a hypnotherapist. Kristen went to a faith healer. One of us has had her colon roto-routed. We are talking about the most wacky and woo-woo thin...
7 years ago
Mom's Mental Madness

Things on my mind con-artists and shitty grandmothers - My dad died several years ago. 2013 actually. He wanted to be cremated, but his mother had other plans. She and his sister insisted on an $8,000 viewing ...
8 years ago
Bipolarly | It doesn't rhyme with crazy.

He left me - …nearly 5 months ago and soon we’ll be divorced. I rack my brain to understand the reasons why. Why is it easy to leave me? At the end of this year would’v...
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P is for Preschooler - P is for Preschooler Blog

Washi Tape Beads Necklace - As time goes on, it gets trickier and trickier to get Kay to practice fine motor skills. When she was younger it seemed easier to get her involved in a...
8 years ago
Sea Glass & Other Fragments

Introducing Becca - Hi everyone! I'm back! Sort of. Let me explain. Many of you know me as a Rebecca Hawkes, but in real life most people know me as Becca Bryer. Rebecca Hawk...
8 years ago
I am Neurotic and I need Help by Neurotic Nelly

Capable.... - I wanted to take a moment and talk about how we have to continue to go on. We have to continue to fight and be positive. We have to continue to believe t...
8 years ago
bipolarmuse

This AMAZING Man § - We walked, hand in hand, in the dark night… with an amazingly black sky above, beautifully lit with an unimaginable amount of stars… and Jupiter, Saturn,...
8 years ago
Bipolar Girl

Why watch it? - Why did I decide to watch “13 Reasons Why“? For many reasons, but the main one was that in my mind was that I thought it would be therapeutic. Thankfully I...
9 years ago
bi[polar] curious

BPC Finale: Goodbye After 5 Years - This week marks the five year anniversary of starting the Bi[polar] Curious Blog and for many reasons I have decided that this post will also conclude my t...
9 years ago
Hope Rising: A Journey of Hope and Healing Through Faith

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9 years ago
Bean's Path

Unpopular Opinion - I just received a phone call from my local police force asking to support them in an anti-bullying campaign. Thing is....I don't think getting rid of bully...
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Nectar Madness: My Bipolar Sapience

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inconsistently yours

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10 years ago
My Meddling Mind

ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder - Learning more about it. - Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD, is a fairly common neurological issue that for years, has been classified as a learning disability. If you’re born wi...
10 years ago
Eating Clean on a College Budget

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10 years ago
Mood Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified

A follow up note - Last time I left off, I was suicidal. Again. Not as bad as the last time, but still pretty bad. This time, I ended up going into the hospital. A little “...
10 years ago
My Mental Illness & Christian Faith

The Holy Spirit’s Healing And Jesus’ Love—Recovery From Borderline Personality Disorder - “There was a world within me that I called Borderline. It was a dark world, a place I thought I would never escape. It tortured me with emotions that con...
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A Bipolar Journey Through The Rabbit Hole

Changed To A New Domain - The new domain for what used to be A Bipolar Journey Through The Rabbit Hole is now “Bipolar Moments” at morninglemon.net. Hopefully, this will solve the p...
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Anxiety Killed The Cat

How to Calm Anxiety: The Definitive Guide - [image: How to Calm Anxiety: The Definitive Guide] Last updated: 20/09/2015 Introduction The First Steps – START HERE Calming Anxiety Through Your Diet Sta...
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Multiple Me & DID

Memory of feeling powerful - I remember getting caught smoking a cigarette on school property the night of a football game. Come monday Homeroom, I got a slip to go to the office. I ...
10 years ago
My Life With Bipolar Disorder And My Passionate Journey Towards Kissing Stigma Goodbye!!

There's Nothing Selfish About Suicide - I cam across this post last night and it brought tears to my eyes to read it. If you only read one thing today, please make it this link. http://www.huff...
10 years ago
zoloftlife.

More drugs more drugs. - Also now I’m in bed. I took two valium and two imovane. Waited and didn’t feel them. Took three more valium and two more imovane. Waited and didn’t feel th...
10 years ago
Mental Health Relief without Pharmaceuticals?

Good-Bye, Shane - March 23rd, 2015, it will be three years since my friend, Shane, died. For those three years I have been so angry with him, not only because that he died, ...
11 years ago
Normal in Training

Moving to WordPress - I have moved my blog over to WordPress, so I hope you follow me over there! My new address is normalintraining.com. If you are signed up via email or RSS ...
11 years ago
Being Truly Present

Gone Fishing… - Okay, I’m not literally going fishing. I have not fished since I was a tyke but I am hanging a “gone fishing” sign on my blog to let readers know that I am...
11 years ago
Mrs Bipolarity

Interview Series: Hilary T. Smith - Finally! Here is the final interview from my Author Interview Series. Hilary T. Smith, who wrote Welcome to the Jungle was kind enough to answer a few qu...
11 years ago
Coffee, Cake and Bellyaches

I raised a bully... - Last year I spend a lot of time at my oldest son's middle school due to his being bullied. He's smaller than other kids his age, he has diabetes, he's dif...
12 years ago
My Crazy Bipolar Life

19:57 – Just, why? - ** Trigger warning for talk of self harm ** Today has not been a good day at all. It started off with a battle with royal mail as I have paid to have my ma...
12 years ago
The Adventures of The Inner Bitch | The life of a Bi Polar single mother

Life – My first ever poem - LIFE Life shouldn’t be so painful Life shouldn’t be so hard Life shouldn’t be something You would happily discard Life shouldn’t be a struggle Just to get ...
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A PLASTER FOR MY MIND

Tuesday night/Wednesday morning rant - My eyeballs feel cold. Im tired. I feel a little cloudy headed. I cant seem to cry although I probably want to. Its almost feels like having a bad cold min...
12 years ago
Procrastinating Writers

The 6 Literary Forces Every Writer Must Master - You may be aware of what’s becoming widely known as the “six core competencies of storytelling.” These core competencies, as defined by my go-to fiction-wr...
12 years ago
the wending path | a poetic journey of recovery

back to center - back to center Skin now fits Panic gone Linear thought returns No more medicated sleep Finally Knowing Issac’s 3rd law Will prove itself Pendulum in motion...
13 years ago
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

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