This is not about avoiding the moment, or STUFFING THE MOMENT DOWN and pretending it doesn’t exist. More like a tiny little mental escape from the day-to-day.

The dust has settled on two years and I FEEL WEIRD!

The 15 books that distracted me from the burnout of the past two years!

It’s a gamechanger to know that we can choose how to show up for our own lives, or in this case, our own holiday seasons. We know what brings on happy feelings, so how can we create activities or moments to bring them out?

I couldn’t have made it through the last week without the tools I have acquired throughout 30+ YEARS of struggling with my mental health. That’s an entire lifetime! I actively work on it, and I was so thankful for that this past week. I’m still very sad, but I’m okay. Here’s what I did, and maybe it could help you with something you’re going through.

Making a case to embrace your ADHD-ridden self, or friend, or child, or sibling, or parent. We’re virtually SUPER HUMANS! And are also likely RIDDLED WITH ANXIETY (the two are closely connected) so if you don’t support us, we’ll likely spiral out of control and show up at your door and clean your whole house while singing songs from Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston.

WHAT THE F IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD?

Full of wine, sugary cocktails, history, fish, chips, popcorn, shopping, sunrises, and depression!

People value thick thighs on a chicken, then they can value thick thighs on me.

I’m not sober, I’m not even sure I want to be, but I’m struggling to find a healthy relationship with an abusive substance that causes me nothing but mental health problems. Which, truthfully, pretty much sums up all of my relationships!

Stuck with nothing to do and nowhere to go, I turned to God. Just kidding. I decided to meditate.

I realized recently that all of my “wonderful little idiosyncrasies” are a complete laundry list of depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and I am a living, breathing, somehow functioning product of mental illness.

I’ve learned that happiness does not mean sunny skies and perfect weather. Happiness is more like New England. You’re going to get some 75-degree Christmas mornings and snow on your birthday in May.

I live alone during a pandemic, but I’m NEVER LONELY! I present to thee all the ways to avoid loneliness by USING YOUR FRIENDS. (Some might say leaning on your friends, but I say forcing yourself on them.)