Just The Way We Are
by Robin O’Bryant Thanksgiving was fun. We spent a week at The Farm in Jasper, Alabama with Zeb’s family. I love them and I have the best in-laws in the world. I don’t even have to try to like them, because I just do. They are awesome. And I say that because I don’t want [...]
In a recent email exchange with a certain family member about mental health (ok, my mental health), it didn’t take long before finding myself in familiar and somewhat frustrating territory. With feeble attempts to illustrate how clinical depression is so much more than just “having the blues”, I Googled articles on the subject, forwarding anything I could find [...]
I recently received an email from a reader asking for help. She hates dieting but loves diet Coke (not because it’s diet, mind you, but because she likes the taste and that’s fine by me). She hates dieting for the sake of dieting and she hates her body even more. She knows she’s overweight and [...]
In memory of those killed in the Sandy Hook tragedy in Newtown, I ask you to reach. Reach out, reach up. Having seen despair and hopelessness up close I can say one feels helpless in the face of someone’s hopelessness Yet they need us to try to reach them If you want to hurt yourself [...]
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