Emerging Blogger Series

The emerging blogger series is a way to give bloggers who are in an early stage of their blogging evolution the opportunity to have their work seen by a wider audience.   It’s also a way to introduce readers to some newer members of our community and promote connectedness within the blogging community.

Series Criteria

• you have a personal (rather than business-oriented) blog that’s focused primarily on mental health and illness
• you’re a new(ish) blogger, with WordPress following <100 preferred

Interested?  If you fit the criteria above:

• email me at mentalhealthathome (at) gmail (dot) com
• let me know the topic you’d like to write about and include your blog name/URL
• don’t think of this as having to “pitch” an idea – I’m just trying to make sure people actually fit the criteria and spirit of the emerging blogger series

If you’ve faced significant mental health struggles and are working (or have worked) in a helping field supporting others’ mental wellbeing, you may be interested in the Wounded Healer interview series.

Past Emerging Blogger Series Participants

Note: Some of the blogs below don’t link to the emerging blogger’s site because the blog no longer exists at that URL.

Blog name A–C

• A Day in the Life… With Mental Illness (Ashley) – guest post: The worst 5 years of my life
• A Prisoner By No Crime Of My Own (Jodie) – guest post: I wasn’t born yesterday (circa 1935)
• Aergia’s Daughter (Brenda) – Guest post: Depression and medications
• Amy E. Russo (Amy) – Guest post: Tuedays mean therapy
• An Experiment with Vulnerability (RDB) – Guest post: 2021: Challenge accepted
• Arts and Healing Hearts (Jessica) – Guest post: Minimalism and your mental health

• Be Alright (Megan) – Guest post: Reflecting on suicidal thoughts
• Between Two Poles (Sarah) – Guest post: Taking off the mask
• Bipolar? It’s Not All Doom and Gloom (Clive) – Guest post: Life with bipolar
• BiPolarMania (Brittany) – Guest post: Manic psychosis
• Blurry Thought – Guest post: Eating disorders are not a competition
• BNHealthMatters (Brenda) – What I have learnt about grief
• Borderline and Beyond (Tigerchelle) – Guest post: The worst and most painful BPD trigger
• Breathing with a Noose (Noose Girl) – Guest post: Ambulance joy ride
• Broken Hearted Grace (Kim) – Guest post: Life after loss

• Choose Transformation (Kim) – Guest post: Surviving comparison
• Choose Yourself (Tshidi) – Guest post: Why I decided to share my journey with depression
• Coconut Heels – Guest post: Hospitalization & hallucinations

Blog name D–K

• Daily Bliss (Guru of Zen) – Guest post: How to stop being miserable – beating yourself up over goals
• Delilah’s Blossom – Guest post: Butterflies & amnesia
• Dev’s Thoughts (Dev) – Guest post: The monster in me: How I found out I had PMDD
• Digging the Dirt on OCD (Mim) – Guest post: The willy crisis
• Divinely Bipolar (Tanya) – Guest post: Appetite for destruction
• Doctor Getting Sober – Guest post: Does a diagnosis make a difference?

• Eilidh Horder – Guest post: It will be okay

• Food.for.thoughts, life, and its ways (Kacha) – Guest post: If you suffer from loneliness, you’re not alone

• GAD, Pure OCD, and Me (Chloe) – Guest post: My toxic relationship
• Girl vs. World (Sophie) – Guest post: The reality of social anxiety
• Glass Half Full (Alyssa) – Guest post: A drop of knowledge

• Happy In Him (Savannah) – Guest post: It’s okay to not be okay, just don’t stay there
• HealthComesFirst!!! Blogger – Guest post: Stigma
• Here Are My Brains (Heidi) – Guest post: Insanely genius
• Higher Times – Guest post: My first psychotic break

• In My Head With Simon – Guest post: Making peace with where you are
• Inside My Manic Mind (Sarah) – Guest post: Maintaining relationships when you’re capricious and socially inept
• It’s On Random (Kat) – Guest post: And I never told anyone

• Kaleidoscopic Promises (Christie) – Guest post: Go out and face your fears
• Kellie’s Journey (Kellie) – Guest post: My journey

Blog name L–M

• La Protagoniste – Guest post: Dealing with depression when help isn’t available
• Lacey Talks (Lacey) – Guest post: Can we just talk about bipolar disorder?
• Life of a Bipolar Girl (Karen) – Guest post: The things I never talk about or say out loud
• Living Resiliently (Ezi) – Guest post: Can a Facebook puzzle diagnose a mental illness?
• Living Well While Mentally Ill (Christopher) – Guest post: Mental illness and work
• Lose Weight with Ang – Guest post: What in the world is orthorexia?
• Lost In My Head – Guest post: I am a bipolar warrior
• Love to Live (Molly) – Guest post: It won’t leave me alone
• Love, Your Brain – Guest post: What’s in a diagnosis?  MDD and SPD

• Mad in Madagascar – Guest post: Hospitalized for schizoaffective disorder
• Markybipolar – Guest post: The beginning of my journey
• Matt’s Mishaps (Matthew) – Guest post: How college bested me and my anxiety
•  Melan-jolly (Dhruv) – Guest post: How my journey with depression began as a 12 year old
• Mental Health & Me (Natasha) – Guest post: Saying goodbye to my toxic ‘friend’ – An anorexia nervosa recovery story
• Mental Health Matters (Emma) – Guest post: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder explained
• Mental Health vs You (Ashleigh) – Guest post: The good, the bad, and the person
• Mentally Ill in America (Mio) – Guest post: My possible origin story
• MichelleWriterBlog (Michelle) – Guest post: You truly are beautiful
• Mummy’s Anxiety Monster (Tanya) – Guest post: Me my mental health and I
• My Accessible Life (Nikole) – Guest post: Executive dysfunction tips & tricks
• My Brain’s Not Broken (Nathan) – Guest post: How to battle the mental health stigma
• My Life with Dementia and Bipolar Disorder (Saro) – Guest post: The face!
• My Lust for Life (Caitlin) – Guest post: The most traumatised patient

Blog name N–R

• Nina’s Corner (Janine) – Guest post: Social anxiety disorder – no sense of self

• One More Hope (Tim) – Guest post: For you, the sufferer
• Our Dissociative Identity Disorder Journey (Mike & Kayleigh Marie) – Guest post: We fell in love too

• Panoramic Counseling (Johnzelle) – Guest post: What is play therapy?
• Perspective on Trauma (LaDonna) – Guest post: Unchartered: Looking within during unsettling times
• Positivity Towards Mental Health (Emily) – Guest post: My story
• Prose for the Masses (Meagon) – Guest post: PTSD’s many different colours

• Quash Stigma, Not Fat (Burnie) – Guest post: Why you should keep going in eating disorder recovery
• Quiet Person, Loud Thoughts – Guest post: What happens when you don’t die

• Rants of a Lazy Mom (Tayabah) – Guest post: Anger management
• Really Real Blog (Tina) – Guest post: The value of DBT skills
• Reaveree Wheeler Blog for Bloggers (Reaveree) – Guest post: A new take on Mental Health @ Home
• Recovery By Ink (Brittany) – Guest post: Staying in the present with your emotions
• Reflections of an Anxious Man (Peter) – Guest post: Anxiety is a cruel mistress
• Rock ‘s Spiritual Journey (Rock) – Guest post: Accepting the cycle
• Royally Incomplete (The In Between Queen) – Guest post: Eating disorders and self-help

Blog name S–Z

• Schizowhatnow (Joey) – Guest post: You are not your intrusive thoughts
• Secret Lady Spider (Elle Rose) – Guest post: Explaining derealization
• She Writes, She Says (Lara) – Guest post: One day at a time
• Shrink(ing) Violet (Violet) – Guest post: The turning of the calendar does not start a new story and so it continues
• Smiling Through Tears (Elizabeth) – Guest post: Living with bipolar II disorder
• Something In Mind (Natalie) – Guest post: Accepting the skin you’re in
• Steering Through Mental Health (Lisa) – Guest post: Love, hope, and kindness
• Stronger Than What Hurt Me – Guest post: Rape culture is fucked
• Surviving Childhood Trauma (Shanon) – Guest post: A childhood of abuse, an adulthood of trauma

• Tea At Mine (Sharleen) – Guest post: Overcoming PTSD
• The Anxiety Diva (Heather) – Guest post: I needed an antipsychotic to get through the pandemic
• The Art of Being Happy. (Lisa Turner) – Guest post: Can depression numb your feelings?
• The Colourful Salad (Steffi Jenifer) – Guest post: My dark side
• The Crazy Life (Christine) – Guest post: This too shall pass
• The Curly Therapist (Sana) – Guest post: What your attachment style says about you
• The Dark Tales Project (Juan) – Guest post: The darkest tale
• The Self Helpful (Elly) – Guest post: What to do with anxious thoughts
• The Tiny Couch (Valerie Rice) – Guest post: Journaling: good vs. evil
• Tori Talks – Guest post: Mental health illnesses are not adjectives
• Twenties Tales (Aoife) – Guest post: Social anxiety: A day in the life

• Wishing Tree (Sara) – Guest post: Purpose
• Writing Through PTSD (JH) – Guest post: How trauma-focused CBT is helping me

• Your Limitless Life (Rob) – Guest post: There and back again: A young man’s journey through anxiety and depression
• Your Social Anxiety Bestie (Sadie) – Guest post: How social anxiety therapy helps me survive as a mom, human, and camel