I’m going to have to take a break from Steemit for a month or so. That wasn’t my intention, as prior to an ER visit earlier this week, I had been able to post everyday. My hope had been to continue writing

HERE IS THE IDEA. This contest will be called MY TEXTUAL MIRROR (MTM) CONTEST . PROCESS Write a poem about your personality USE 'MTM' AS A TAG Come back to this post and drop your link as a comment CRITERIA

My head hurts, my body aches, shaking from my second panic attack of the day. My fever has spiked and all I want to do is lay in bed and cry. Fears over everyday survival are triggering my panic attacks.

Photo Credit I struggled with this the most in my childhood to early adult life. I would compare myself to others whether it was in school, sports, or what I considered were the ideals standard of beauty.

Throughout my life I have been told to smile more times than I can count. I have been told that I need more joy in my life and that I bring people down. I don’t believe in pushing my emotions off on others,

Dear Friends, In case you missed it over on @shawnamawna, our two girls are Girl Scouts. The scouting program is community focused. Their troops are donating cookies to U.S. troops, but my girls (and some

My pet rat died this morning. I buried her near her sister. Then I took down her cage, threw away all of her linens, and scrubbed the area around where she and her sister had lived for the past 2 years.

Image credit: Geralt on Pixabay I used to have a bad habit of berating myself over every small mistake I would make. I still have this problem sometimes, though meditation and mindfulness has helped me

Writing everyday has not been on my agenda. Writing sustains me through the times when I feel like everything is crumbling around me. When I get so sick that I am stuck in bed for weeks at a time, my back

Early this month I shared that my daughters' want to buy and distribute cookies to the local homeless. Bloomington has a considerable homeless community. We are not immune to deaths on the street on cold

I’ve had a fever for almost 2 years. The beginning of March will likely mark an unhappy anniversary of sorts for me, the 2-year point of having a fever of unknown origins. During that period, I have gone