borderline personality disorder

Mood Rings and Mood Swings

October 1, 2012

When I was about 5 years old, my family took a road trip to California with my cousins, aunt, and uncle.  We went to visit my godparents and their youngest daughter.  One day we went swimming and at the bottom of the pool, my cousin Andrea found a mood ring and I was immediately fascinated. [...]

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How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Saved My Life This Week

August 10, 2012
Flowers Quote

“To enjoy life, you must start with the little things.  To enjoy the little things, you must be alive.  To be alive, you must be willing to endure both PAIN AND PLEASURE.  We don’t know one without the other”–Alex @ Raw Recovery Another raw post today. I will insert a disclaimer right here and say [...]

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If You Do What You Always Do, You’ll Get What You’ve Always Got

July 30, 2012

Angie baby right out of the bath–her eyes are saying, “Please Mommy, don’t ever put me in the big, white wet thing where water comes out. Even if you give me treats I still hate it…” (Angie makes me smile so I needed her presence to write this post) * “If you do what you [...]

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Crash. Burn. Float. Breathe.

July 28, 2012

  Sometimes I’m scared to share parts of my heart with the world, even when I’m certain that there are others who can relate.  There are others who can relate to the feeling of having no emotional skin and spending day after day emotionally bleeding because of things that were meant to hurt and words/actions [...]

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Recovering from BPD: An Extreme Self-Care Lifestyle

July 5, 2012

Today was a sad day because this morning the Boyfriend left to go back home to Boston.  He will be back in a few weeks and then we are planning a vacation together that will include Angie of course More on that when the time comes because now I really need to focus on self-care. [...]

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Motivated Monday and The Goddess World

June 12, 2012

It’s difficult for me to say out loud what a hard time I have sometimes performing daily tasks.  It’s not laziness, but it’s a combination of fear induced depression, extreme fatigue (emotional and physical), and the constant swirling thoughts that exhaust me.  However, yesterday I pulled myself together, gave myself a pep-talk, and a had [...]

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Borderline Weekend

June 4, 2012

I have to say that I am actually SO glad that it’s Monday.  Weekends, for whatever reason, happen to be EXTREMELY difficult on me.  I don’t know what the difference is because it’s not like my weekends are that different from my weekdays, but I have been experiencing some severe “BPD episodes” the past several [...]

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When Life Gives You Lemons….I Forget the Rest

May 15, 2012

Behold the mostly raw, completely vegan Meyer Lemon Coconut Bar.  Chances are you probably have most of the ingredients in your pantry, right now. Now I’ve posted a few recipes on the blog and if you can’t tell I’m a lazy cook.  Can I help it that I want what I want when I want [...]

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Pain + Tears + Therapy + Support + Giving It My All & Then Some = 6 Months Of Recovery

May 14, 2012

So this weekend, I checked off a pretty big thing on my to do list for 2012: I’m honestly still having a little trouble comprehending that I did actually finish college.  It’s kind of surreal because I don’t have any more school work to do, appointments to get to, meetings with professors, thesis work, reading, [...]

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Thoughts on The Buddha and The Borderline

April 18, 2012

Yesterday morning Angie woke me up at 6:45 to take her outside to potty.  My first thought as we walked back into the building was, “Crap, I have to work on my thesis”…two second pause…”Wait a second….”…realization…”IT’S FINISHED!!” It was a great feeling. The newest Angie update is that she got a hold of one [...]

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