Mental Health
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My Bitter Season: Turning Lemons into Lemonade with God’s Grace
Things I Wish I Knew Before 2024 “Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment, face blindness, and functional depression hasn’t been easy. But through faith, survival strategies, and resilience, God is turning my bitter season into lemonade.” For years, I lived with questions about my mind and emotions, never fully understanding why I struggled in ways others Continue reading
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Delivered, Not Dismissed: My Last Straw and the Day God Released Me
Happy Sabbath, my friends. Everyone has their definition of “the movie straw.” But unless you’ve lived with mental health battles, unless you’ve cried yourself to sleep trying to hold it together for a job, a title, or your pride, please, sit down and be quiet. Mental health looks different for everyone. It’s silent sometimes. But Continue reading
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The Importance of Like and Love in Relationships: Understanding the Foundations of Emotional Connections
Can you love someone and not like them? Or like someone without loving them? These questions have lingered in my mind ever since a conversation I had with a close friend of mine, who was in the Army Reserve at the time. It wasn’t until after he passed away in 2014 from a motorcycle accident Continue reading
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The Power of Kindness: Why Small Acts Matter More Than You Think
Sunday thoughts Kindness is one of the simplest yet most powerful gifts we can offer to others. It doesn’t need to be grand or extravagant; sometimes, a genuine smile, a kind word, or a small gesture of support is all it takes to brighten someone’s day. But what makes kindness so important? It’s about seeing Continue reading
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Living with Brain Injury After a Coma: What “The Damage is Done” Really Means
Surviving a coma is just the beginning. Here’s my journey through brain injury, memory loss, and emotional changes after a stroke—and why “the damage is done” was never a complete answer. Living with brain injury after a coma is a silent struggle that most people don’t see. After suffering a stroke due to a sickle Continue reading
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Depression, Up Close.
A bottomless pit Before my stroke, I didn’t truly understand what depression was. For the first six years afterward, I even denied I had it. I think, in part, because I was consumed by constant physical pain—bouncing from one joint replacement surgery to another, never fully healing before another part of me gave out. There Continue reading
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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) education time:
My diagnosis after two Neurocognitive tests. This is a way to measure brain function non-invasively. It uses paper-and-pencil tests or computerized tests to assess important aspects of cognition: attention, memory, language, reaction time, perception, and so on. One test was administered in UT Health in Houston TX, in 2019. The length of the testing appointment six Continue reading
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Mental Health and Depression – Pt 2
Begin date of post: May 29, 2022 I haven’t written in over a year. I believe my last post was on my 48th Birthday in December 2020, but what started off as a small miserable feeling turned out to be my biggest fight. I actually tried writing when it first began in 2021 but I Continue reading
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Trauma, Mental Health, PTSD and GOD!
Soooo who is excited it’s October and fall? ME! ME! ME! Fall has always been my favorite time of the year in America. I love the changing of the leaves, the colors, the fresh crisp air. This year I am now adding a new love to October and here is why. September was the year Continue reading
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Depression and Mental Health
Did I share with you my depression period – it all happened in my life after a coma well of course this is what my blog is all about. So here goes my chapter on DEPRESSION. I never knew or understood what depression felt like. After all I have never really been depressed before September Continue reading
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COVID-19 Life
Hope everyone is in good spirits tonight. My last post was July 6 and it seems like so much have happened and nothing has really happened. Who am I kidding? So after my COVID move I have now settled so much that I am working. My first office job since the coma. Here begins another Continue reading
About Me
I LIVE LOVE LAUGH LEARN – the only way I know how to survive this life! I am a free-spirited, independent, or uninhibited person. I began this blogging journey years ago for sharing my thoughts on everyday life. Since then, so much has happened including me being in a coma because of Sickle Cell with brain damage and extreme trials in life. I am still struggling, but I feel someone can be motivated through my journey, thoughts, feelings, and life.
Phoenix: Live Love Laugh 
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