Image Credit: https://www.crystalinks.com/merkabah.html Before someone named it cyclothymia, I thought it was just an awareness of the seasons and life cycles of nature. In my blood I feel the frenetic energy of summer and the call to hybernation in winter, the preparation for the darkness in fall and the spike of seedling energy in theContinue reading “Shock and Awe: The Call to Adventure, The Hero Self”
Category Archives: cyclothymia
Patience, Pain, Perseverance
“I realized that explaining symptoms to someone is as useful as telling someone with said symptoms to just not have them.”
The Merge: Holding Two Apparently Opposing Views As Equally Valid
Alright. Let’s unpack this shit. This is a subject I am passionate about. It seems to me that many people decide, as Anakin Skywalker decided, that if you are not with us, you are against us. We are in the days of the empire vs. the rebellion. Frankly, when have we not been? Since thisContinue reading “The Merge: Holding Two Apparently Opposing Views As Equally Valid”
Show, Don’t Tell
It’s becoming a practice to listen to people’s stories and see what they have endured through the power of mere belief, of belief in someone within who is bigger than the person without. This man smoked crack every morning for ten years and went to prison twice and now he has a Doctorate in ClinicalContinue reading “Show, Don’t Tell”
#Foodfulness
For a long time, food was only about survival for me. I liked food well enough growing up, but was primarily concerned with whatever story I was lost in or whatever game my siblings or cousins and I were playing. We weren’t allowed to leave the table until all of our food was gone, soContinue reading “#Foodfulness”
