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How to Build Resilience to Depression

By: Michelle Whipple January 27, 2023

UncategorizedBe Alive, chronic illness, Curiosity, Depression, featured, Mental Illness, Positive Psychology3 Comments

I wrote this piece for the local newspaper! As we’ve attempted to settle into post-pandemic life, the mental health crisis continues to rage. According to a review by Boston University School of Public Health, rates of depression in the United States have risen from 9 percent, pre-pandemic, to 33 percent in 2021. With depression affecting…

I am terrified of the silence.

By: Michelle Whipple June 17, 2022

UncategorizedCoparenting, Depression, Divorce, featured, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Motherhood, Silence, Yoga, yoga mindset4 Comments

As children of mothers with depression, we have to teach ourselves how to cry because there is danger in the sadness. It feels like giant cavern that could swallow me whole, a darkness that I might never escape. So I flitter around saying, I’m fine! I’m fine! and going to parties and talking and drinking…