Blue Christmas

I spent this Christmas alone, prior to going to work at 3:00pm. I'm at a place in my life that it is becoming increasingly apparent just how alone I am. It was not an intentional choice to be here, but simply where life took me. Between a birth defect that made children of my own...

Suicide & Depression

I’ve started and discarded this about a dozen times now.  Because, honestly?  There are no words that will ever make it right again.  Suicide struck my community this past week.  And to make it even more heartbreaking, it was the suicide of a high school senior who was a student athlete and had friends and...

Valuing What I Do

As I've mentioned, I work full time on a crisis team. Today I arrived on time for my shift and promptly jumped into a meeting with my supervisor, the crisis team coordinator, and myself (crisis case manager team lead). Also in attendance was a team member who recently graduated with their masters in social work...

Living Skillfully

Life is not static. We are always learning, growing, and evolving. I don't use the word changing, because most of us don't completely change. We build and evolve what we've already learned in our life, adding new information or things we enjoy into who we are. The old things are still there, sometimes buried or...