by Lauren H White | Feb 11, 2020 | Emotions
The earth lies dormant in Winter, and I want to hibernate too. With my bipolar disorder, feeling depressed after New Year’s can drag all the way through March. I’ve learned to expect the post-holiday struggle, and push roots deeper to thrive in the chill. If you have...
by Lauren H White | Aug 23, 2019 | Emotions, Spirituality
Merry and me, home again. It’s like dying. Drowning. A total eclipse of the sun. This time, without my baby, without my Marion, it’s the shock of a grief you don’t expect and can’t possibly be prepared to receive. You stagger under the blow....
by Lauren H White | Feb 4, 2019 | Community, Nutrition
When we set out to heal my bipolar in the spring of 2016, we didn’t know where that journey would lead. Bipolar is a serious, complex health condition that affects every part of you: body, soul, and spirit, how you relate to yourself and others, how you process...
by Lauren H White | Nov 5, 2018 | Emotions, Nutrition, Spirituality
Months. Months of waiting, praying, and pushing through the motions of caring for my child. Months, and mountains moved. The growth, birth and first several months of my daughter’s life threw my mental state into chaos. I was so out of balance during the...
by Lauren H White | Mar 16, 2018 | Emotions
In the months following your daughter’s birth, you come to realize an important truth: being a mom with mental illness is not just hard. It’s impossible. It’s impossible when you’re manic, postpartum and on medication to breastfeed your baby, so you have to let...
