To The Boy Who Saved Me
His clammy hands grasped my neck, squeezing so hard that my airway was compressed. He was on top of me. His eyes as angry as the red shirt he wore gleamed into my soul. He pressed his thumbs into the...
View ArticleWhere Is My Crystal Ball?
“Before you know it, you’re 20 years old and wondering what happened to that 13 year old girl and why did she spend so long hating herself? But you realize that 13 year old girl didn’t ever see...
View ArticleThe Spark That Sent My Life On Fire
My depression did not care if I have had the best day in a long time. It made me believe that I didn’t deserve it. My depression did not care if I was in the middle of a class. It made me lose focus....
View ArticleThe Middle Ground Of Recovery
I feel as if I am a heavy burden to everyone in my life at this point. I am hurting every single solitary person I come in contact with and I push him or her away by pressing my constant problems onto...
View ArticleThe Fight For Your Life
It’s like drowning. The waves of depression pull you underneath the water in the middle of the ocean. You want to scream for help but you know that nobody would hear you. You’re afraid that opening...
View ArticleWhy 20 Is A Milestone Birthday
“Before you know it, you’re 20 years old and wondering what happened to that 13 year old girl and why did she spend so long hating herself? But you realize that 13 year old girl didn’t ever see...
View ArticleYou Deserved To Be Celebrated Too
“It’s a shame how hard you are on yourself. You treat others with more love than you treat you. You deserve to be celebrated too” I had said in my last article that: “I learned to let go of the people...
View ArticleFive Years Ago My Life Changed
Today, September 23rd 2016, you turned five. 5 whole years’ old. Just yesterday I was sitting in the Fitch High School auditorium after one of my sister’s concerts when your mother and father, who...
View ArticleTo The High School Guidence Counselors
All I ever wanted was to feel safe at school. It is the scariest thing in the world to be 17 and feel as though you have no safe place to go. When you don't have a place, you turn to people to find...
View ArticleTo the girl who loves everyone else more than herself – instead of herself
“I survived because the fire inside of me burned brighter than the fire around me.” ― Joshua Graham You are a soul that lights the candle or the stick to help lead everyone else out of the darkness,...
View ArticleThe Hourglass Effect
What's stopping you? I was asked. My desire for happiness. One day you’re on a cruise ship having the time of your life. You don’t want to go to sleep because you don’t want this feeling to end. You...
View ArticleGetting Out Of Bed Is Enough.
I hit snooze for the seventh time. 8 minutes and 59 more seconds, and then I’ll really get up this time. I was supposed to get up over an hour ago, I think. No one wants to be around me if I’m like...
View ArticleTo The Teacher Who Changed Me
I always hated those kids who claimed to hate school even though they were super popular just because that was the cool thing, which evidently made them even more popular, somehow. But man did I...
View ArticleElection 2016's Effect On Children
The nine-year-old I work with each week came in, sat in her chair, and proceeded to physically slump down in it. She exclaimed under her breath, her voice shaking, that "I don't want my family to be...
View ArticleThe Empty Chair At The Holiday Table
They always tell you about the year of firsts. How awful each first holiday, birthday, celebration, event is proceeding their death. And they’re right. They absolutely suck. Everyone cries all the...
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For The People Who Became My People
There are not enough words this Thanksgiving season for me to tell each of you how amazing and caring and wonderful and great you are. So, here are a few quotes to remind you that you make my life...
View ArticleWhy Didn't She Tell Anyone That She Wanted To Die?
She told you at school when she walked into every class, plopped her backpack down, and let her head fall into her arms, waiting until the very last second to pull herself together. She told you when...
View ArticleTo The Friend Who
To the friend who convinces me to get out of bed on the hard days by suggesting I take to the couch instead, and sits there with me so that I am not alone even if it’s in silence. To the friend who...
View ArticleA Christmas Story
I remember one year around Christmas time my mother came home and exclaimed that there would not be very many presents under the tree – we (my brother, sister, and I) each would get one from mom and...
View ArticleThe New Year's Resolution Controvery
Here they come: the bash of the “new year, new me” phrases. Mostly, the logic behind the hate of this phrase is: why do you need a date to change? If you want to change, you should wait until January...
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