Who Needs Sleep?

Who Needs Sleep?

If it’s 3 a.m. there's a good chance I'm wide awake.  I'm either up because I have to pee, my dogs are barking at some imagined threat (THE WIND IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!) or my brain is trying to process 3,167,414 thoughts at once.  Usually, it's the brain thing. That is, after all, [...]

Anxiety Over What Words To Use To Describe My Anxiety

Anxiety Over What Words To Use To Describe My Anxiety

(Originally published in “Reno Tahoe Tonight” magazine – October 2017) Words have power.  One of my favorite quotes is from Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore (by way of J.K. Rowling) and it goes:  “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." Words we use [...]

Don’t Let Your Depression Do The Talking

Don’t Let Your Depression Do The Talking

(This article was originally published at themighty.com) “That’s your depression talking…” My therapist says this to me fairly often. It’s one of the most basic traits of having depression. It speaks for you, about you and to you. It’s not an advocate. It never tells you, “Hey, great decision!” or “You got this!” Sometimes, it [...]