Twenty years ago, I stood in a courtroom and took an oath for a volunteer job I had no idea I would fall so much in love with or do for 20 years. I was sworn in as North Carolina Guardian ad Litem and was handed my first case with
Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take my openness to the subject. I was pleasantly surprised that in the three-plus years so far I’ve only had one person say bad things to
Trigger warning: suicidal ideation, depression, bipolar, mania If you would prefer to stick to all the positives skip to the numbered list at the bottom. I started the year as I did well the last 10 years oh so with my life plan up to date and goals all set.
Purpose This blog and bullet journal was specially created to help me with my tendency to have suicidal ideation, depressive, and manic episodes related to my bipolar. If you are currently in a crisis, please seek help from a mental health professional or find a hotline to call on this
Kevin Kline (b | t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and it is to “Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or event resulted in an amazing career or life opportunity.” I have previously blogged on the topic of mentoring the community and how much I’ve gotten out
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Kenneth Fisher (b | t) has invited us to blog about our first tech job. Oh boy, oh boy, has anybody heard any of my horrible job stories. Well, they started early and with my very first
Let’s make 2021 a year where we protect our mental health. Looking back at 2020 no one could predict a global pandemic and the chaos that it would cause worldwide with the economy and people’s lives. The overload of what happened in 2020 caused a lot more mental health challenges
At the end of 2019, Mala (b | t) invited us to write about the gifts we’ve gotten during the year. I’ve decided to try to make this yearly habit. This year with COVID I know it’s hard to be as thankful with lockdowns and not being able to see loved
I first starting presenting on mental health last December in Charlotte, NC on mental health. I got some backlash at a couple of events for a few people on “me” being the person talking about it. But I’ve gotten an overwhelming amount more of support than I have backlash. I
Introduction Today is World Bipolar Day. I wanted to write a blog about my experience with bipolar to help others that have mental health challenges know that aren’t alone but with a pandemic going it might be more helpful to gives some insight into how that effects someone with mental