“Don’t sing!” Aurora screamed from the other room. I sighed. Aurora, my then eight-year-old, had been trying to ban singing in our house for months. Well, not ALL singing. Just any songs that she didn’t want stuck in her head. Her favorite songs were fine. I just was not a huge fan of restricting myself […]
When I was a kid, I heard of the legendary Heber J Grant. He literally became a “jack of all trades” and the best in everything he tried (except carrying a note) — because he kept trying. He carried with him an Emerson quote that said “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not […]
CSH Community Open Letter Grandma May (Co-Director CSH/Coordinator Social Media and Community Outreach) Dear CSH Community, We’ve tried everything… those we love have too… It seems as if no one is really getting better, for any length of time, and the battle with hopelessness rages on. Too often we hear despair coming from those we […]
Council for Sustainable Healing A Personal Story A degree in psychology, a stint on the local suicide hotline and still nothing could have prepared me for that day. The day I found my child sitting on the bathroom floor….Staring blankly…. “Get away from me!” What’s happening? What is she doing? Why is […]
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein I just returned from visiting one of my best friends currently living in a mental health facility in the Midwest. Mike grew up in a difficult, unstable family situation that would have pushed any precious child into a […]
