Tag: Mental Health Monday

Mental Health Monday: The Thing About Your Reputation Is It Is Not Entirely Yours

Eight years ago today, Taylor Swift released reputation, an album about finding love amidst the noise of public scrutiny and negative press. While her sixth studio album is known for its themes of revenge and reclaiming her narrative, it also serves as a love story about building a relationship in private while dealing with public … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Thing About Your Reputation Is It Is Not Entirely Yours

Mental Health Monday: A Love That Heals

Eight years ago, on a rainy Tuesday evening in July, I left therapy and, in the quiet of a cab ride home, captured my therapist’s words before they slipped away into a moment in time. Flashforward to July 4, 2025, and my husband and I celebrated 1.5 years of marriage and 5.5 years together. My … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: A Love That Heals

Mental Health Monday: this is me trying

They told me all of my cages were mentalSo I got wasted like all my potential That lyric is from this is me trying, a track off Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album folklore, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year. I adore everything about the song, but right now that particular lyric is … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: this is me trying

Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.

April 7th is World Health Day, a global health awareness day celebrated every year under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.

Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror

I do not know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way in 2024 I stopped seeing myself in the woman in the mirror. The About Me section on the blog, which I wrote in August 2018 before launching Lwile the Leo on the last day of Leo season, reads: In very many ways … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror

Mental Health Monday: Why Am I Grasping, But Not Latching, On To Happiness?

March 20th is International Day of Happiness and on that day in 2019 I put up a post titled Find Your Happy. In it I wrote about how, for the first time in my life, I identified as happy. I have spent most of my life pursuing happiness. My second tattoo, which I got in … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: Why Am I Grasping, But Not Latching, On To Happiness?

Mental Health Monday: The Unmothered Club

For 30 years I had a mother. Now I do not. I am unmothered. I have been meaning to start a Mental Health Monday (MHM) segment on the blog for almost a year now because mental health is something I am deeply passionate about. If my mum were still alive, she would be turning 62 … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Unmothered Club