“Take a breath. Remember your ERP training. Remember how far you’ve come, but also remember, you are human.“ It’s bedtime. I yawn, close my door, thankful that the days of dreading bedtime as if it were a trip to the dentist are behind me. Obsessive compulsive disorder always plagued me the worst at night. ItContinue reading “To ERP Is Human; to Forgive Divine”
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OCD and Writing
“What OCD can do for my writing is to know the joy of a character being able to look up from a mountain of their own brokenness and experience the sublime joy it is to rise, rise, RISE!“ While at a writer’s panel recently for my sci-fi romance Stealing Ares, I was asked a questionContinue reading “OCD and Writing”
So Say We One, So Say We All
“If I don’t understand it, maybe I can listen and dialogue until I do, because ultimately, what affects one of us affects all of us.” Long before the phrase “So say we all” was made famous in Battlestar Galactica, it was a phrase used at the end of communal prayers in some spiritual circles. It’sContinue reading “So Say We One, So Say We All”
From Cleveland with Love
“You need to help remove the stigma, not promote it. Be honest with each other when a colleague asks how you feel or when someone attempts to tell you how they feel. You have to be willing to have honest dialog about these concerns if you are ever going to help others, the very reasonContinue reading “From Cleveland with Love”
“The Look”
“Maybe the person you talk to today doesn’t seem to ‘get it.’ What we don’t know about is the person that individual may meet with tomorrow. What we share, ripples. We don’t know where those ripples lead, but we have faith that they keep going. Thank you to Jeff Herman of the Jeff Herman LiteraryContinue reading ““The Look””
Harm OCD: You Are Not Alone 