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**Warning: This post could be triggering as it mentions suicide often. Please do not read if you are sensitive to mental health issues and suicide.** July 10. My entire universe exploded. Most people cannot say the date that they became a different person, but I know mine. It was a Sunday night; I spent Saturday on a date with my favorite crush, who...

I grew up in a vanilla cowtown full of racist and misogynistic views in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, I grew up with a hippie mother who believed your spirit was just as much part of Christianity as God, and the world is to be explored, delved into, and torn apart. She became a big part of teaching me how to leave...

Marji J. Sherman writes about the death of her two siblings due to suicide. She provides ideas for getting through grief and the pain it brings.

In another life, this birthday was excruciatingly hard. After sipping some not-so-normal coffee my ex-husband tried to give me on an unusually warm December morning, I knew it was finally between him killing me or me saving my life....

Not going to lie, I had a pretty rough night last night, and when I got up to go to work this morning, I wanted nothing more than to seep in the self-pity stew I managed to cook for myself somewhere in the middle of the night. As I made my way onto the parking lot that is I-95 at rush...

The word 'influencer' has been so overused in social media that it has become a challenging area to take these days seriously. Are you an influencer? Am I an influencer? What makes someone an influencer? IMO these are pretty subjective questions to answer. See, the definition of influence varies on who you are in the world. To some, it's the thousands...

When I was a senior in high school I was madly in love with my first love to the point that I would have done anything for him. We were perfect for each other, except his family did not support dating. He was of a different religion than me. That was my first shattering realization that religion has a lot to...

A few years ago, I woke up with horrific pain in my abdomen. I have endometriosis, which is often described as feeling like you have barbed wire twisting in your stomach, so I calmly assumed it was just that kicking in again and went ahead with my daily routine. Then, I felt the pain sharply move up my right side and...

I listened to a fantastic sermon today by TD Jakes. It was all about the questions we ask God and what we ask of life in general. The quote that struck me was, “Don’t ask God for a handout; ask God for a hand up.” In other words, instead of begging God to hand us absolutely everything we desire, we should...