Wellness Healing Warrior

Andersen Update 6/25/2019 ​Five months have passed and so much has happened. ​ ​​I'm in a completely different headspace as well as a completely different relationship space. These days are the days I prayed for during the entirety of my 20's.  The hostility that used to linger around us is gone! We talk and enjoy each others company, we work as a team under all fronts, we don't blindly agree with each other but we discuss differences respectfully and we focus on only showing love to each other! We have so much fun raising Seraphim, watching her grow. She's fully caught up to her age and thriving, I say my little genius but I could be biased! 😆 She's got such a full personality and stands up for what she wants and cares about. Right now she says she wants to be a doctor so we've started to nurture those interests.😍 The hubs is doing a lot of work to stay on track, we both finally got into trauma therapy! An accident derailed a few things for him, lots of trigg...

Impostor Syndrome and Eviction Time! 2/10/2019 Hey guys, I know it's been a while but this journey doesn't follow a timeline. Well, this journey coupled with mental illness doesn't follow a timeline for Me. Let's talk about impostor syndrome because there have been times during this journey that I felt like a fake. I felt like eventually, it all would come Crashing Down. Bipolar has me in a bit of a different position though I was waiting for the negative parts of mania. I was waiting to swing out of this peace. With each day I grow a little more cautious because Mania is nothing to mess with. It has now been eight months since an episode. I remind myself that my sleep is nowhere near Mania because when I'm shifting I stop sleeping. I'd be lucky if I got 2 hours of sleep once transitioning into media started. I remind myself that I sleep 5 to 6 hours during the week and 8 sometimes 10 on the weekends. I remind myself that if I was faking I wouldn't wake up f...