Originally Published: January 1st, 2025 2026 What are my biggest challenges? Reflecting on last year’s overthinking/thinking challenges, this first day of 2026 I foresee the biggest challenge has moved from internal struggles to external ones. Such as, how to have a horse in my life? When will I start my Reiki practice? The good news…
Tag: Mental Health
Embracing Imperfection: Strategies For A Growth Mindset
Processing Envy This summer, I am working at a riding camp located at an equestrian riding school. The riding school is owned by a lovely family who truly loves horses. At the end of the camp day, family members can enjoy the company of their horses. At the end of my camp day, I can…
Embracing 50: Decoding My Diagnosis: Navigating Mental Health Challenges
As my 56th birthday approaches, I’ve decided to repost blogs about past birthdays. I wrote Embracing 50: Decoding My Diagnosis: Navigating Mental Health Challenges on March 26th, 2019 while we were living in Doha, Qatar. Rereading this blog reflects an important truth for me: I can’t advocate enough the importance of a proper mental health diagnosis. My…
A Happiness Inventory
I can’t sleep. I had a few thoughts monkeying around my head, so I thought I would make a pot of coffee and write. As Michael and I continue to settle on our property while he builds our dome home, I think about what it means to be happy. My journey into and across adulthood…
BPD & HPD And Gardening – Both Need Constant Tending To
I have Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder with a blog series about these tragically misunderstood personality disorders as a way to destigmatize, inform and navigate my healing through them. Therefore, I would like to see more information on the destigmatization of Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder. As well, I would also…
Living With BPD & HPD – The Stigma & Social Pariah Of Personality Disorders
Physical Diseases – More Socially Accepted Than Mental Illnesses I first want to say I do not mean to diminish the life changing journey anyone has to face when diagnosed with a serious physical disease, such as ALS, that tragically kills people. When someone is diagnosed with a physical disease – most family and friends…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Overlapping Symptoms & What Type Of & How BPD Am I?
Overlapping Symtoms Diagnosing BPD can be quite challenging as its symptoms overlap the symptoms of other mental health disorders like: As well, BPD symptoms overlap the symptoms of neurodivergent minds like: For many years, I was misdiagnosed with PTSD, DDNOS and ADHD. CPTSD was even put on the table, just before my appropriate diagnosis of…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Not PTSD – It’s Emotions – Borderline Style
Not PTSD I have spent the last two decades scared to death that something hidden in my memory was the reason my body floods with fear when “triggered” by specific and/or not so identifiable situations. I could not understand or link the intense emotions to the PTSD Flashback symptom of feeling like I was back…