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We Are All Doing Our Best

February 12, 2019 by not your average mom 5 Comments

This past Saturday a sixteen-year-old girl one town over from mine committed suicide by jumping off a parking garage at the local mall. Like many other teen suicides, mental health issues and bullying were cited as two factors. Some disturbing screenshots of horrible things said by a classmate appeared on social media after the news […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: bullying, Finsta, mental illness, social media and teens, standing up to bullying, teen suicide

Cause I Got Issues

July 16, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Every Monday at 1:00 I go to therapy with my husband. We have been seeing the same therapist for over a year now. Since we normally go during the school day, the kids are never around when it’s time to go. Now that it’s summer and the kids are home all the time — ALL […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: destigmatizing mental illness, marriage counseling, mental health, mental illness, therapists, therapy

There Is No Shame In Therapy.

September 20, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I was talking to a mom recently, and she was telling me that her child who is in elementary school was struggling with anxiety and it’s gotten to the point that it’s affecting the child at school so the kid is now seeing a therapist. And the mom seemed kind of scared to admit this […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: anxiety, mental illness, stigma, therapist, therapy

Next stop — world domination (or at least six figures).

January 6, 2017 by not your average mom 7 Comments

I’ve spent the past couple months in blog limbo. Like many things I do, I started this blog on a whim with no plan. I also knew nothing about blogging. But I always had the goal of supporting my family from it. I’m not quite there yet. And now I’m at kind of a crossroads. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: blog, fitness, healthy, help, mental illness, navigate, risk, website

Change needs to start at the bottom.

September 10, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

Last week I was nominated to do the #22Kill push-up challenge. If you are involved in any form of social media, chances are high that you know what it is. I had seen in floating around Facebook. I’ve seen many of my friends doing push-ups. I knew the campaign was to bring awareness to the fact […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: depression, mental illness, PTSD, therapists, therapy

You may want to consider not being an ignorant ass.

October 18, 2015 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It takes a lot to offend me. A lot. Everyone knows I love the f-word. So clearly off color language doesn’t bother me. While I don’t think name calling is a good thing, I’m not really bothered by that either. Call me a bitch if you want. Call me an asshole. While you’re at it, go for […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: anxiety, depression, mental illness, the stigma surrounding mental illness

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