Therapy
Therapy comes in many forms. I believe that what ever calms you, brings you back to center, and makes you feel good is therapy. If taking a drive with windows down, music up fills your soul; therapy. If immersing yourself in a book, escaping reality soothes your mind; therapy. Pen to paper or fingers to keyboard dashing off late night thoughts; therapy. In 2008, I started a blog on the blogger platform entitled, "because blogging is cheaper than therapy". If I'd only known then how true those words are. Blogs were booming at that time and every stay-at-home mom was writing about their children being amazing, life being blessed, documenting every detail of their day to day life. Meanwhile, I was just struggling trying to find my place in it all. My relationship with my mother, who we lived with was strained, my ex-husband has a chronic medical condition, and I was balancing all that while raising 3 kids in a toxic environment. I needed an outlet. I posted fairly frequen