by Lauren A Jennings | 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...
by Lauren A Jennings | Feb 24, 2017 | Emotions, Nutrition
If you or someone you love has a chronic or mental illness, this post is for you. It’s for you if your physical, mental or emotional brokenness crushes your spirit. It’s for you if you’ve been to the best doctors that you can afford, and...
by Lauren A Jennings | Sep 19, 2016 | Emotions, Nutrition, Spirituality
For years, I have been in the Valley of Achor. Sandstorms. Mirages. Heatstroke. Hosea can relate. Hosea lives a crummy life. His wife, Gomer, is a prostitute whom he has to repeatedly bring back home after she has a wild night on the town. Gomer is just like...
by Lauren A Jennings | Jun 9, 2016 | Emotions, Nutrition
I woke up this morning feeling like I was run over by a mack truck. I’m exhausted, emotional and weak. So much has happened over my two-month hiatus from the blog. I have the urge to write today because it’s been a bad day, the worst I’ve had in a...
by Lauren A Jennings | Mar 25, 2016 | Emotions
Two weeks ago, I began a medication change which has had a far greater impact than we anticipated. After beginning to taper off Depakote on a Friday night, I have been experiencing intermittent migraines and nausea. Though brief, the random bursts of pain have...
by Lauren A Jennings | Jan 22, 2016 | Emotions, Nutrition
On the day I am writing, my Boxer-pitbull-and-God-knows-what, Thor, is curled up on the couch. We put him outside this morning before the rain and sleet hit. The forecast called for a wintry mix today and while we’ve yet to see snow, the sub-freezing...
