Category: Acceptance
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Postpartum Anxiety — Running from the Storm.
Why I have compassion for Lindsay Clancy I always felt immune to my family’s history of mental health. My mother battled severe alcoholism her entire life (and in my opinion an untreated bipolar diagnosis). I believe my brother had an untreated anxiety disorder coupled with depression. Both of their lives…
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Crossing the Line – I want to be friends with Lauren Boebert
In my hometown of Colorado, I live in a progressive echo chamber. I call home to a district that is a progressive and liberal community. You may see the occasional MAGA sign, but it is overshadowed by the flamboyant display of rainbow flags and active community participation. We are represented…
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Diversity in Nature Exists Without Apology.
Don’t you love it when you come across nature that just exists without apology? Like an abandoned house overgrown with vines? Like when you find a single orange poppy growing in the middle of a paved parking lot. Like when you find lilies that have rooted under a fence? It…