Tag: Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Darkness and Light

  

  I feel like I’ve been living in some paradoxes lately. Simply put, a paradox is a situation/statement that lives in contradiction (two opposites that can be true at the same time). On one hand, I’m still so so grateful for the life that God has given me. I absolutely LOVE where we live. I’m still…

  Courtney

  December 6, 2024

  Anxiety, Camp Life, Depression, Faith, Family, Gratitude, healing, Health, Husband, Jesus, Kids, Love, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Prayer, PTSD, Reflection

  Advent, Anxiety, Christmas, Depression, Faith, family, Gratitude, Hope, Jesus, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Seasonal Depression, Winter

• Life is a Paradox: Hard AND Beautiful

  

  Just a warning… this is pretty long. I started this post a week ago and just had the mental energy to pick it back up. These past few weeks have been hard and honestly just plain weird. I know I said that last time I wrote, but it continued. We have had a lot of…

  Courtney

  November 23, 2024

  Depression, Exercise, Family, Health, Healthy Habits, Holidays, Holistic, Homeschooling, Joyful Movement, Kids, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Nutrition, Reflection, Thanksgiving

  Anxiety, Depression, Education, family, Health, Healthy Habits, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Homeschooling Teenagers, Mental Health, Mental Illness, parenting, Raising Teenagers, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Seasonal Depression, Wild + Free, Wild + Free Mama

• My Complicated Mental Health

  

  My mental health is very complicated. I have a LONG history of struggle. Not just a little bit of struggle. Severe struggle. Trauma, hospitalization (multiple times), not being able to keep a full time job, severe anxiety with major physical symptoms, rehab/alcoholism, and on and on. It has been hard to even determine what my…

  Courtney

  August 31, 2024

  Anxiety, Depression, Faith, Family, Friends, healing, Health, Healthy Habits, Jesus, Joyful Movement, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Nutrition, Prayer, PTSD, Reflection, Simple Living

  ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, family, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Health, Jesus, Major Depressive Disorder, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Mental Health, Prayer, PTSD, Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Swimming Upstream in Jello

  

  My childbirth education certification class trainer said this to me after I explained how hard it has been to get the course completed (I started it years ago…). I felt so seen in that moment. That’s my whole life. In addition to the ADHD, the depression coming and going as it desires, and living with…

  Courtney

  February 20, 2024

  Health

  ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, healing, Hope, Ketamine, Ketamine Infusions, Ketamine IV, Ketamine Treatment, Mental Health, PTSD, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Trauma