CURRENTS THROUGH USELESS BAY

Can I stay with this? Can I stay here, in my body, with this pain, with this grief so large I see only the inside of a whale’s belly? Feel it fully, rock myself in the night, sob with it, see it, tell it all the things a mother-loving God knows how to say….

Adrenal exhaustion is a lifestyle “game changer.” You lose choices about how much you can get away with anymore, and you have to look hard at how you’ve been living. I’ve approached this from a variety of areas, which I’ll post in a simple way here, and then follow with more in-depth posts [...]

A cure? Well, maybe not quite a cure, but a thought–a possibility. I’ve struggled with dysthymia (low-grade depression) for most of my life. Most likely it’s a combination of growing up in an alcoholic family and brain chemistry. For the most part, I take care of it using natural methods: Light, [...]