: About Me

I am a single mom of two children, 15 and 8. I am a work from home mom.
I have 4 horses, 2 Arabians, 2 minis we rescued unknowingly pregnant.
I love photography. I am inspired daily by my children to take pictures and make them art.
I don't know if I am right or left brained as I love math and sciences but also, drawing and painting and taking pictures. I am also left handed but right eye dominant...I am just all messed up!

My passion is ...

photography

I know too much about ...

mental health

My parents always told me ...

be careful what you wish for, it might come true

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a doctor

My favorite memory ...

having to take my friend home for lunch with me because she wasn't wearing underwear (we were neighbors, in 1st grade)

Why I write ...

to help other people

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Raise Your Voice (listening to the movie)

My first job ...

grocery store cashier (very brief)

My best moment ...

becoming a mom (BOTH times)

My inspiration ...

God, he has to have a plan for me somewhere

Health & Fitness > Mental Illness What is self injury?

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Have you ever felt so miserable on the inside you wished, prayed, and begged for it to go away? Self injury occurs when that very wish or prayer goes unanswered. When there is no escape for the pain most people will go to any length for it to go away. Mental pain doesn't just go away with an aspirin, it is there for the duration. Day in and day out people all over the generations feel this pain. Some people cope in ways that are considered healthy or acceptable, the rest rely on the only mechanisms they know how, self injury. What is self injury? Self injury is anything a person does that ...

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