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My Story from Borrow My Angel Nov 2025
Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the Borrow My Angel Rise to Break Stigma event. Borrow My Angel is an incredible organization working to overcome stigma attached to mental health so that more people will seek the help they need to improve their lives and their mental health. In that aim, I wanted to share what I spoke. If you were there, I definitely took the direction of my good friend and mentor Lori Robertson and spoke without reading so it did not include a
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Nov 1311 min read
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New bumper sticker...
I missed Mental Health Awareness month by a day...but this has been on my mind all month...so, I started this on this last day of mental...
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Oct 1, 20246 min read
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Letting go of ideals
We live in a land of ideals where comfort equates to good and discomfort is immediately coined bad. Anything that challenges our...
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Jun 2, 20244 min read
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A kicker on being a woman
A clutch kicker makes a commencement speech and for some reason decides to speak to women about how he knows they are really just excited...
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May 15, 20245 min read
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Mother’s Day
In the middle of last night my 96 year old grandfather passed away. He was my last remaining grandparent. He was the patriarchal figure...
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May 12, 20245 min read
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Love, Peace, Hope
Thank you for the truth…where I found love, peace and hope: The truth and the pain that it brought was the greatest and most tortuous...
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May 5, 20245 min read
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The struggle is real...and also productive
When my son was born, my first child, I labored for a long time. The didn’t tell me for a while that his cord was wrapped around his neck...
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May 5, 20247 min read
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Why is mental health so important to me?
Mental health has become the label that makes most sense to me to describe the journey to figuring out how to just be. Mental illness has...
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Apr 27, 20248 min read
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The end
They want to be near me, with me. They tell me they need me. I want to believe them, so I do. They give me their heart. They stay close,...
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Apr 25, 20241 min read
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When
When did control become the place in the middle of the podium The blue ribbon The medal to beat? When did titles dictate our worth? And...
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Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Let other people down for a while Pick up your cozy blanket Curl up under it And quiet yourself, your mind. Go to yoga. A walk. Buy...
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Apr 24, 20241 min read
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Contrast
I was dating a guy in college. He went grocery shopping with me one afternoon…I don’t remember why…I guess because in college you have...
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Apr 18, 20244 min read
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Toy volcanos and TV shows
My daughter was 6 when the pandemic began. She was in kindergarten. She was so little. So cute and sassy and hilarious! She went on...
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Apr 16, 20247 min read
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Commencement 2023
Last year Clif Smart, President of Missouri State University, asked me if I would give commencement at one of the graduation ceremonies...
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Apr 14, 20243 min read
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Expectation and resentment
I keep reading this meme that says "Expectation is the source of resentment." Is it? Or is it the fact that our standards have been...
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Apr 10, 20247 min read
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About me.
I am 45 years old. And I like that number because it feels very even and middle and like I have earned it. I don't feel 45 but I know my...
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Apr 7, 20245 min read
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Hi, it's me.
This morning I woke up and decided it was finally time to make a way to share my overthinking with more than just me. A blog seems a bit...
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Apr 6, 20244 min read
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