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Mental Health Advocacy Day
Monday was a busy day for me. I did a little work before a dentist appointment that took most of the morning, then testified via Zoom for...
Feb 3, 20233 min read
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Book launch couldn't have been better
My first book launch was last night. I was blown away by the kindness and support from so many friends, family members, coworkers past...
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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"You must do the thing you think you cannot do"
Eleanor Roosevelt said, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." She's also widely attributed with saying "Do one thing every day...
Nov 15, 20223 min read
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Feeding the Good Wolf
My memoir, Feed Me comes out in December 2022 from Casper Press. It's about my bipolar disorder, my eating disorder, trauma, and...
Oct 16, 20222 min read
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Speaking my truth
I wrote a memoir. It tells the story of me grappling with severe anxiety and depression from the time I was young, my eating disorder,...
Sep 28, 20223 min read
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From a former perfectionist: How I learned to chill (kind of)
After my essay on the week I spent in a teen psych ward at thirteen came out this week, I've been thinking about the eating disorder that...
Jul 14, 20224 min read
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Celebrating a Life
It's never easy to say goodbye to a loved one, but the pandemic has made it even more difficult over the last few years, placing...
Jun 14, 20223 min read
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The healing power of food
When I was 13, 14, 15, food was my enemy. Eating anything--three almonds, half a clementine--made me feel guilty, overindulgent, like a...
May 21, 20224 min read
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How Hockey Helps My Mental Health (Go Growlers!)
As a depressed teenager, hockey was one part of my life that (almost) always brought me joy. Even if I'd spent most of the day reading in...
Apr 25, 20223 min read
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Exposing your vulnerable self
This week, my essay "Lies Mania Has Told Me" was published in OC87 Recovery Diaries (this is my second time they've published a piece of...
Apr 15, 20224 min read
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Depression is always lurking
Depression and mania are two sides of the bipolar coin, always lurking below the surface. I didn't know that's what those moods that...
Mar 20, 20223 min read
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Why is it so hard to admit I'm not OK?
I grew up in a family where it was normal--expected, even--when in pain to say I'm fine, there's no problem here, to just suck it up and...
Feb 13, 20225 min read
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Why I'm Terrified of Hospitals
I was 13 the first time I spent any real time in a hospital. My mother drove me two and a half hours to the Keene State Hospital, which...
Jan 5, 20226 min read
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What grounds you?
Nala & Delphi are my tethers When I read submissions for A Tether to This World: Poems & Stories of Recovery, I didn't quite know what I...
Nov 5, 20212 min read
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What Mental Health Means to Me
It's World Mental Health Day. I learned this when I logged onto my Peloton and a bright banner popped up announcing the day and that...
Oct 10, 20215 min read
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Bless the Personal Rejections
Well, friends, it's happened yet again: a rejection. From an arts grant I was crossing my fingers for. Statistically improbable, I know,...
Sep 3, 20213 min read
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No, I would not like to go off my meds
A decade ago, I didn't want to go on pills for depression and anxiety, which were severe. I had this idea that medical intervention would...
Aug 28, 20216 min read
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Ending Therapy
Today was my last therapy session. It was via Zoom, which has been the case for a year and a half. It was sort of anticlimactic. We...
Aug 9, 20215 min read
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Will my book destroy my relationship with my mother?
Five years ago, I was really anxious about having a conversation with my mother. I'd been planning it for weeks, talking to professionals...
Aug 1, 20214 min read
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On Writing Trauma
I spent last week revising my forthcoming essay collection at the Burlington, VT office of my publisher, Holbrook House. I was holed up...
Jun 21, 20214 min read
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