Building mental wellness on a foundation of strength
It's funny how some music becomes really attached to certain times in your life. That doesn't happen to me much that I'm older, but from my younger years there are quite a few songs that really take me black to a certain place/time. Here's a wander through a few of them. The elementary School years… Continue reading The Music of Our Lives
This post will take a look back at things I still have from back in the day. My mom hates that phrase, but I love its non-specific retro-liciousness. Auntie Lou, one of my great aunts, regularly gave me books for Christmas and birthdays, including the Anne of Green Gables series and Emily of New Moon.… Continue reading Things from Back in the Day
Google Maps Street View is handy for all kinds of things, including a partner's infidelity (as unearthed by Claudette). This post will take a meander through the small town where I grew up, Nowhereville, British Columbia, Canada. My parents built this house before I was born and lived there until I was around 30. My… Continue reading My Hometown via Google Maps
I used to really like Christmas, but the last Christmas I cared about was the last Christmas I was well, which was in 2015. Since then, I haven't cared enough to do anything for Christmas, including putting up a tree, but I thought I'd rummage through some of the ornaments from my childhood that were… Continue reading Christmas Tree Ornaments from Childhood
There are certain flowers that I have a strong association with my childhood home. This is a wander through them. There were four o' clocks planted beside our front door. In the late afternoon (around 4:00), the flowers would open up and display their beauty. We had quite a few of them, and I think… Continue reading Flowers of my childhood
In this edition of This Was Me, we'll look back at times in my 30s when I was unwell, although you wouldn't know it just from looking at the picture. This photo was taken in December 2011, only a week or two after being discharged from a 2-month hospital stay. I was better in a… Continue reading This Was Me: The Things That Photos Hide
I did my first big international trip (aside from a high school exchange trip to Japan) when I was 22, and that was when the travel bug firmly took root. From then on, each year I would take all my vacation time together in one block and do an international trip, other than the years… Continue reading This Was Me: My Travelling 20s
Peopled seemed to like the This Was Me post that covered my younger years, and this post will look back at my high school years. I wasn't a huge fan of that time in my life. Nothing bad happened; I just felt like I had very different interests from the vast majority of my peers, and… Continue reading This Was Me: The High School Years
Image by congerdesign from Pixabay For a little something different, I thought I'd take a bit of a stroll down memory lane to the earlier years of my life. Here's me as a baby. My parents had built this house (okay they weren't physically doing the building) two years before I came along as firstborn. They stayed in… Continue reading This Was Me: The Childhood Years
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week's terms are repression and suppression. Freud's psychoanlytic theory Suppression and repression are examples of Freudian defense mechanisms. They serve the purpose of removing unwanted information from conscious awareness. Suppression is done consciously, while repression is automatic and unconscious. Freud… Continue reading What Is… Repression and Suppression
