Call Me Mental

  • Free to be you!

    What is mental health? What's healthy for our mental systems…and what is consider the mental part of us?  Is it the thoughts in our head, the choices we make, our beliefs….the way we perceive the world or the way we… Continue reading

  • Move Intuitively.

    My tea bag read, "Our intuition comes from innocence".   The near miss with my mother followed me around yesterday, lingering like a shadow I couldn't seem to shake.  Feeling visited by a ghost. What came to me is that… Continue reading

  • Reverence

      I named this quilt "Reverence" and here are the words that I wrote about this quilt. "I stand in reverence of my old self…it wasn't an easy life to live so shut down, choiceless and voiceless…to keep my truth… Continue reading

  • Sisterhood…

      Another quilt in the spotlight, another piece of my healing, another growth spurt for my lady and I.  Thank you David Cowardin and Lola Visuals. I loved these ladies dancing together in their own uniqueness, separate but together…the sisterhood… Continue reading

  • Who Programmed it.

    Who knew that the brain is responsible for how we live our lives?  That it isn't what happens to us, or seemingly against us, but rather how our minds process life. And how our brains are groomed or structured to… Continue reading

  • Step Eight

    Step Eight – Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. "While making such a list, we are also mindful of our Inner Child and the need to protect the… Continue reading

  • Fearless Acceptance!

    I love how David Cowardin has let each of my quilts get their day in the Sun.  Today, it is "Fearless Acceptance".  Thanks Lola Visuals…you make us look good!    It is interesting that the Fearless Accepting…would appear to be… Continue reading

  • Change the Pattern

      Step Two - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity…from the book, "Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families". "In one respect, Step Two implies that we had sanity and lost it when in reality… Continue reading

  • Me from Them

    O Magazine asks 20 questions you should ask yourself…beginning with "Do I examine my life enough?" What a great start!  How often to you ask yourself questions about what you are doing and why?  How often are you willing to… Continue reading

  • Is Not Love.

    Over the past years that I have been speaking out so frankly about my dysfunctional family and MY own dysfunction… and kindness has been challenged and used as a tool to ward off any action…of self awareness…self responsibility and self… Continue reading