5 years ago today, I posted asking to confirm if the mayor of Bellingham had asked everyone to stay home as the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting Whatcom County and we were going into lockdown for the first time on a global scale.
Tag Archives: mental health
Jax’s Not-So-Inner Monologue
The fact that my post calling for organization of protests and political solutions to the crisis we are facing in Whatcom county was removed from the Buy Nothing Sell Nothing Group tells me all I need to know about how hard it is going to be to uproot the white rich privileged complacency here. AndContinue reading “Jax’s Not-So-Inner Monologue”
On Loving Those Who Hurt Us
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
2022 Life Update
Well! It has been a while! Hello, friends! How are you all doing? It sure has been a wild few years. In the midst of all the chaos, I chose to retreat within myself, but not in the self-isolating way I normally have done. Instead of being avoidant, I chose to be present with myself,Continue reading “2022 Life Update”
Life Goals
All I really want in life is to become a genuinely good, nice, kind, caring, productive person.
What Is Self-Love?
I haven’t made a blog post in a while.
I haven’t updated my social media accounts either.
So, why is this?
Here’s the full story.
Vulnerability & Shame
What makes you feel vulnerable? What triggers feelings of shame for you?
The harder it is to open ourselves to the possibility of being vulnerable, the more likely we have experienced some form of trauma in our lives. The earlier on in our lives that we were exposed to something traumatic, the more ingrained those neural pathways are, meaning the more likely the roads that leads to us experiencing feelings like shame are well travelled.
This Too Shall Pass
“It’s funny, isn’t it? The things that matter? The truth is none of it matters. And the truth is all of it matters tremendously. It’s a wonder any of us ever get out of bed at all. And yet, we get out of bed.”
Stop Picking Your Scabs
“It occurred to me that ‘choose’ and ‘pick’ are synonyms. You can choose to learn from your mistakes and turn your pain into something kind, or you can pick your scabs and pick a fight.”
Mental Health Update
So, I’m about to be going down to 50mg of lamotrigine – I was at 200mg for years, so that’s pretty huge – next week. I’m still at 25mg of venlafaxine, but I was on 150mg for almost the same amount of time that I was on lamotrigine for. I’m hoping to be off of lamotrigine by the end of January if not sooner & off of venlafaxine by March if not sooner.
Jax Bayne 