Tag: loneliness
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ASL Journey
I have mentioned I’m working on learning ASL. I thought it might be fun to share how I’m doing with this. There is also the disturbing thing I want to share with you. Did you know 90% of parents who have a deaf child do not bother to learn ASL? Talk about isolating to put…
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Relearning ASL and Letting My Hands Do the Healing
Sign language returned like a lost part of me—calming, expressive, safe. Now I use my hands to say what my voice learned to suppress.
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Simple Joy and Life
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. This one is pretty easy for me to describe. It is actually this site. I get to be me without apology and as I learn what masks I’ve worn I get to share that. My site is totally based on what chaos it…
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The Wolf Within: Embracing Loneliness and Connection
Today is one of those days, where I am more sensitive then usual and the words flow a bit to easy just as the tears do. I am a wolf left behind by the pack that has not found me yet.
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Touch Deprivation & Mental Health: Why It Matters
Something is missing, but it’s hard to name. The absence settles in silence, unnoticed at first, then felt in ways difficult to describe. It changes things—slowly, subtly. The body recognizes it before the mind does, a quiet adjustment to something no longer there. And yet, life moves forward, adapting to what was once familiar but…
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The Things I Never Say Out Loud
Mental health struggles don’t announce themselves. They sit in the silence, in the weight of unspoken words, in the quiet ache of loneliness and doubt. If you’ve felt it, know this—you are not the burden. The failure to understand it is. And that is not yours to carry.
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The Shadows of Exile
In the abyss, light flickers faintly—too weak to pierce the shadows. Blades twist unseen, their silent agony claiming warmth now lost. A cold weight presses deeper, dragging all into the inky blankness. Only the faint howl of the broken remains, defiant, clutching at fragile hope in darkness’s relentless embrace.
Who am I? 