“My friends and I have tried cutting out sugar and just plain cutting, magnet stimulation, talking to empty chairs, herbal remedies, pulling out our hair on the bathroom floor, every therapy in the alphabet, and we still feel like we don’t deserve to live…We’re all just trying to make the best decisions we can, trying …
mental health
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I tried to be happy, but sometime your own happiness comes at the expense of other people’s, doesn’t it? It’s hard to balance being both happy and considerate. I often tried to be both by lying, but that usually made it worse,” (Austin). …
I’m on a Wellness committee at work and last month I was tasked with writing a blog post on Toxic Positivity. We’d all been allowed to choose our own topics, and I wanted to talk about one that hides itself as a wellness/self help guide but can actually be pretty harmful when dealing with mental …
“I’m a coward. I run from knowing everything…I can’t grasp death. The immensity, the finality, if you don’t believe there’s a place where someone is waiting for you. I don’t know what to do with something so immovable. To know you can see someone only by looking back,” (Jackson 284). Things have been rough for twenty-four …
As you may remember I was accepted into the HamilTEN Festival earlier this year for the play I wrote, Beep, a short and personal play about my mom’s death and how people who have never dealt with death react around people who have. It’s a very important play to me for obvious reasons and getting to …
Sarah O'Connor 