I have tracked my interest in politics to my figuring out that I had a mental illness, getting help, and becoming somewhat of a mental health advocate. You see, I’m lucky. My husband has a good job and had great insurance, which provided me with the ability to basically pick whatever psychologist I wanted (according to…
Frankly, friends, it’s been a brutal week. I’ve felt like I’m living at the bottom of (my) barrel in many ways, exhausted and running on low or empty in most areas of my life. Do you ever feel like that? Like you are “done” and just need to press reset? We can do that with technology…
Sometimes having OCD is incredibly lonely. We often feel that we have to hide our OCD. This is a choice that we make, and I don’t think that it necessarily makes us weak or afraid. Sometimes it just comes down the fact that we don’t want to be annoying or bring undue attention to ourselves. We…
I was reading my Ensign this month and came to an article called, “Temples, Taproots, and Family Trees” by Rosemary Wixom, the former General Primary President. Now, I love Rosemary Wixom, and not just because she was a great General Primary President (during the time I served as Primary President twice). I love her because…
It’s been a busy week, though I’m not exactly sure what happened to make it so busy. Life. Cleaning, getting a haircut, grocery shopping, taking the kids out on Saturday, Valentine’s Day preparations and Valentine’s Day itself, church meetings, teaching a class at church with less than a week’s notice… Things happen and fill up…