Diana Holberg is not what she was yesterday, and not what she will be tomorrow. She never aspired to write... it just seemed to start happening. Strong in Catholic Christian faith, but open-minded in all other things, Diana hopes to bring some understanding to the experiences of mental illness, recovery, and healing, as well as the journey from various faith expressions into the Ancient Faith (currently under the umbrella of the Catholic Church) - for those suffering and for family, friends and loved ones. Diana Holberg is a single owner of a precious cat, and is once again blissfully employed. She has killed many more flowers than she has grown, but hope reigns eternal!
Each day, I get up intending to have a “normal” day. I think, “I will have breakfast, get ready, and go to work. I’ll have lunch, finish my work and come home. I’ll do some housework, eat dinner, enjoy some leisure time, and sleep… and then I’ll get up and do it again.” But somehow, … More A Wrench in the Works
Do you remember as a kid in school, planting a lima bean? You would put dirt into a cup, poke a bean into the dirt, and add water regularly. Before long, a tiny shoot would grow, bearing what was left of the bean.
A belated welcome to Dr. Michael Lawrence Langdon, M.D. whose blog on WordPress is http://disruptedphysician.com/ – a very interesting site with information about health care professionals, addiction medicine, and fraud in health care, among other things. Also welcome new Follower, Sabrina. Her blog is Sabrina’s Road To…, a personal blog about transitions women face in life. I’m now following … More Welcome to two new Followers
Here’s the next post in the original Facebook series. The link is http://www.ada.gov/pubs/ada.htm. Another site with which to become familiar is http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-fmla.htm for the Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993 (also amended in 2008), which is unpaid leave but can protect your job (and your employer) should you need to miss work due to a mental illness condition.
I’m going through a depressive period – don’t worry, it’s not emotional and I’m not anywhere close to suicidal… it’s just part of the ride. So I thought I’d share with you a couple of the songs that help me get through these periods:
Here’s the next post in the original Facebook series. It’s kind of long so I won’t add anything at this time.
Yes, so I woke up early, ready to craft a wonderful new blog post, and I wrote quite a bit, but it was kind of all over the map so I decided to just save it as a “Draft”. The times after my episodes and near-episodes are always so difficult. All that energy that was … More Nothing to say today…
Here is the next Facebook in the original series. I’ll add a few thoughts along the way 🙂
Welcome to new follower Sophie, whose blog is myitchybubble 🙂
Here’s the next post from my initial series on Facebook – I don’t have much to add to it right now so I’ll let it stand as-is. Sorry it’s so fuzzy… I’m not sure what happened there…
rocks into roses 