by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Freebies!, Mental Health, Printables
Friends, I can not thank you enough for reading and being a part of my story this past month. I’m so very touched by each and every comment/message/email that I have received both here and on social media. They have made me feel hopeful, humbled, and ever so...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Recovery doesn’t happen in a straight line. This is what they told us at the outpatient treatment I went through after being released from the hospital. They drew this swirly line… one loop d loop after another on the board… and I had no idea then...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Today, I am going to talk about something that I notice a lot of people get squirmy about…. There is something about being in a psychiatric inpatient hospital that makes people anxious… I think it is a lot of it is some of the preconceived ideas that I...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Why don’t we talk more about hospitalization??? I’m not talking about for surgeries or broken bones, I’m talking about psychiatric inpatient care. I held SO much fear over the idea of being hospitalized. I had in my head, ideas of straight jackets...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Yesterday I talked about desperation… today I want to tell you about what it was like, what the of feeling suicidal was actually like for me. I think we use that term…. but there isn’t a lot of awareness or understanding for what it means. I...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
In 2009 – it was literally only a matter of months from the time I started feeling that first sense of things being “off” in February to things being so severe that I needed to be hospitalized in May. This is why I am ALWAYS really quick to say...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
As someone who had known depression on and off, I wasn’t necessarily surprised to feel the weight of depression coming on – but what did surprise me 10 years ago is that it was hitting me during what should have been one of the happiest times of my own...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
September 9th – 15th is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Week this year friends! It is something that is SO close to my heart that I wanted to take some time each day this week to open up the conversation about mental health by sharing my own story with...
by Shawna Clingerman | Uncategorized
Have you heard of #the100dayproject?? I’m kinda assuming if you are here, that you HAVE because… otherwise how on earth did you find this 😉 But if you haven’t, head over to The100DayProject’s website to read more, and THEN head back over here...
You are Enough – Free DownloadIn All About Me, Freebies!, Mental Health, Printables
My Mental Health Story Day 7 – LivingIn All About Me, Mental Health
My Mental Health Story Day 5 – EmergencyIn All About Me, Mental Health
My Mental Health Journey Day 4 – DesperationIn All About Me, Mental Health