unspeakable pain soiled shoes; devoured dreams come in from the dark * Written this time last year, these are the shoes of a loved one living within mental illness and, while not quite homeless, I found her living in squalid conditions. She's better today but still continues to battle her bipolar demons. © 2014-2020 – … Continue reading THROWBACK FRIDAY: Dirty Shoes, by Donna Matthews
Mental Illness
Indie Blu(e) Publishing Announces the Release of The Lithium Chronicles Volume 2 by Nicole Lyons
Need a last-minute holiday gift?! Nicole Lyons’ The Lithium Chronicles Volume 2 has just gone live on Amazon. A must-have for all poetry fans.
Week Five: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
This November Brave and Reckless, Go Dog Go Café, and Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen are teaming up to host An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge. At the beginning of each week, we will provide daily writing prompts inspired by titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness. We will also provide the Goodread links for the … Continue reading Week Five: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
Week Four: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
This November Brave and Reckless, Go Dog Go Café, and Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen are teaming up to host An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge. At the beginning of each week, we will provide daily writing prompts inspired by titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness. We will also provide the Goodread links for the … Continue reading Week Four: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
Week Three: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
This November Brave and Reckless, Go Dog Go Café, and Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen are teaming up to host An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge. At the beginning of each week, we will provide daily writing prompts inspired by titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness. We will also provide the Goodread links for the … Continue reading Week Three: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
Week Two: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
This November Brave and Reckless, Go Dog Go Café, and Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen are teaming up to host An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge. At the beginning of each week, we will provide daily writing prompts inspired by titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness. We will also provide the Goodread links for the … Continue reading Week Two: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
Week One: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
This November Brave and Reckless, Go Dog Go Café, and Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen are teaming up to host An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge. At the beginning of each week, we will provide daily writing prompts inspired by titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness. We will also provide the Goodread links for the … Continue reading Week One: An Unquiet Mind Writing Prompt Challenge
Announcing Christine’s November 2019 An Unquiet Mind Prompt Challenge
I am one of 20.9 million Americans living with a mood disorder. In both my personal and professional experience, this can be a very challenging time of year for those who struggle with serious mental illness. For November, I will be using the titles of memoirs and novels that explore life with mental illness for my … Continue reading Announcing Christine’s November 2019 An Unquiet Mind Prompt Challenge
Sneak Peak of Heretics, Lovers and Madmen: Dis-ease by HLR
If you are not following Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen you should be. . . The air in doctor’s waiting rooms is green. You can see it, if you look around properly. The air is shamrock green and hangs heavy with plague. You feel it on your skin, the bacteria, crawling. You breathe in disease. The … Continue reading Sneak Peak of Heretics, Lovers and Madmen: Dis-ease by HLR
DEALIN’ WITH THE DEMONS
By Charles Robert Lindholm You Would Never Know If You Pass Them On The Street Or Sit Beside Them In A Pew At Church Or Share Thanksgiving Dinner With Them Your Co-Worker Seems Quite Normal To You But That's The Problem The Appearance Of Normal Is Deceiving The Lack Of Outward Signs Belies The Truth … Continue reading DEALIN’ WITH THE DEMONS
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