How I’m Coping with Body Image Pressure as a Bride

When I saw myself in my wedding dress, I cried. Too much consumption of TLC and romantic comedy’s led me to believe that one’s wedding dress fitting symbolized life transition, beauty, and tears of joy about childhood dreams being actualized. In contrast, my wedding dress fitting was wrought with anxiety and panic, rather than joyful […]

I’m Okay Alone

I like routine and plans. I live by my calendar. I love knowing that I have plans for the day or night with friends. Even tentative plans in my mind become solid ones. Someone may say that they might be able to hang out on a Monday night, and somehow my mind twists that vague […]

When Father’s Day Stings.

By: the girl who can’t forget but chooses to heal | Guest Submission, Where I Stand Father’s day: It is the reminder of a father-daughter dance at my wedding reception I don’t want to have, the sharp pain in the pit of my stomach knowing girls who have fond memories of a playful, exuberant, protective, validating fathers, while […]

How Change Changed Me

Written by Lizzie Elsberg, Blogger & Advocate I don’t know many people who truly like change…I know I certainly do not. Unfortunately (or fortunately), change is an inevitable part of life – we will all experience it at some point, in big or small ways, and it will probably be overwhelmingly scary. Sometimes we may […]

Without You

Written by Charlotte Sandy, Blogger & Advocate This month, it will be five years without you. Five years of moving through the waves of grieving a person society tells me I shouldn’t grieve. Who grieves the loss of a therapist, anyway? Mental health organizations and professionals always voice a message of hope: “Therapy can provide […]

“Just Be Smart”: A Poem About Self-Harm

“Just Be Smart” Written by Brittany Foster, Blogger & Advocate There is pain and suffering that nobody can see Hidden by nail-biting, a small twitch, and this time, my sleeve Triggered by an appointment about my infertility I reacted as if I haven’t known about it since I was 23 Each time I hear it, […]