THE RISE AGAIN BLOG

Five years ago, I didn’t have a future. I had an addict for a husband, chaos for a life, food stamps for groceries, and three small...

Can you expect the best, even in the worst? Can you expect the best all the time? Is it possible to retrain yourself from a “glass half...

Have you ever faced a challenge or a series of hard knocks that left you feeling like, “When will it ever end?” Are you facing an illness...

It’s OK. It’s just a car. You’re alive. You’re alive. You’re alive. Don’t you see how nothing else matters but that, really?! Your...

It’s not, “If you can see it, then you’ll believe it.” It’s, “If you can believe it, then you’ll see it.” ~Wayne Dyer THE MOST POWERFUL...

Five years ago, I didn’t have a future. I had an addict for a husband, chaos for a life, food stamps for groceries, and three small...

When you were younger, how did you picture yourself now? What was the vision you had of the person you’d be now? If you stop & think...

This is why I write. This is why I do what I do, why I share openly and honestly about every struggle I go through. Because for too long,...

Photo credit: NBC Last night I was watching Chicago Fire, an episode where one of the main characters, Hermann, goes into a burning...

I told them, “No.” I’m not the type of girl who needs a heart monitor for 30 days. Am I? I am healthy, fit and strong. I tell myself that...

I have lived in survival mode for most of the last decade, since the recession came and swept away my pride and savings, and the death...

Back in September, I had a major relapse of seizures. I’d gone 110 days without any seizures over the summer (summer is always kinder to...

WHERE HAVE I BEEN ALL YOUR LIFE? This year (and last year, too!) has been a crazy one for me. My sixteen-year-old nephew passed away...

I want to start a new club. Who wants to join? Everyone? Great!!!!! It’s called The Brave and Brokenhearted Club. Think you belong in it?...

Girls cry, we get labeled drama queens, over-dramatic, over sensitive. Boys cry, they’re not tough enough. They’re weak. They’re...

To the Mama who is fighting silently… To the Mama who is suffering in silence…who wakes up every day feeling already weighed down by a...

It’s been a hard week here. It started out with calling 911 on Sunday because the baby was choking on something she picked up off the...