Author: Elizabeth Banks
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Love Thy Neighbor is a Commandment not a Suggestion
Accepting the Lord and the promise of Heaven is an incredible demonstration of unconditional love from God. It’s a gift freely given, with no strings attached, solely based on God’s love. However, within the Christian faith, this acceptance is just the beginning of the relationship.
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Let go and let them misunderstand you: Embracing Ambiguity
Misunderstandings are an unavoidable aspect of human interaction. Pushing myself to ensure that everyone comprehends me perfectly isn’t a sustainable or healthy approach. Neither for myself nor for those around me.
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Toxic Begets Toxic: Self-Accountability and Relationships
For as long as I can remember, whenever I’ve felt mistreated or undervalued in most relationships, my default reaction has been to blame myself. It’s almost as if I carry this deep-seated belief that if something goes wrong, it must be because I’m not good enough or…
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Echolalia Unmasked: Navigating Social Misconceptions
Imagine a teapot sitting on a stove. The pressure builds and builds until finally, with a sharp whistle, the steam bursts out. This is how echolalia feels for me.
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Let Them Be Curious: Exploring Montessori
People often ask if the glass is half empty or half full, but they never ask where the glass came from. I’ve always found curiosity fascinating…
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Becoming the parent my children deserve: flaws and all
Parenthood made me realize that I kinda suck. Seriously. Becoming a parent put my red flags on blast. It’s been a rollercoaster of self-actualization.
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Handling Mother’s Day After Pregnancy Loss
Pregnancy loss is something that many of us experience privately. We sit alone, cloaked in shame and grief. And we experience one of the most emotionally and physically painful things life has to offer — the death of a child. But we aren’t alone, pregnancy loss impacts 1 in 4…
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Torture Disguised as Hope – Infertility Treatments
I’ve been through a lot in my thirty-four years. Overcoming trauma is a part of who I am. I’m molded by it. My mind and body are well oiled to overcome basic life traumas. But infertility treatments haven’t been basic trauma… they have been something much worse. Fertility treatments are…
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The mind can be the deadliest arrow
I don’t wanna share this, but I feel a responsibility to. I’ve been struggling for a few years. I’m having some trouble keeping my head above water. And I need to share my thoughts with you. I feel like, everyone I know is in an old school LOTR style battle…
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A road with promises and potholes
A little over four years ago I decided what I wanted to be. Life is weird like that, isn’t it? We exist, we try our best, and then one day we realize what we should be when we grow up. Well, I’m 34 so I guess you could call me…
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Self-Acceptance on the Spectrum
If I were a tree mental illness would be layered in each of my rings. It’s not something topical that can be fixed, nor should it. If you take it away I wouldn’t be me. It’s been over a year since I’ve published a new mental health blog post. During…
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Our Pregnancy Loss Story
We’d been counting down the days until our second ultrasound. We were overwhelmingly excited in the best possible way. My husband and I walked into the ultrasound room filled with hope and anticipation. We were finally going to see our baby! And we would get one of those cute ultrasound…
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I won’t be a puppy today
I want to tell you a story. I’ll start by introducing myself. I have a lot of names; when we wake up my name is “Good-Morning-Cisco”, when her heart beats too fast my name is “Cisco-I-Need-You”, when she cries and I hug her my name is “Thank-You-Cisco”, before she falls…
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Bipolar Disorder and Friendship
Today I want to talk about friendship. Someone recently said to me; “You’ll lose all your friends if you keep posting about being bipolar. No one wants to be seen with a crazy person.” If you think this way — I want a shot at changing your mind. If people…
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Self-Care on My Cell Phone
Mental health matters. Self-care matters. Most of us always have a cell phone within reaching distance. I want to help you turn your cell phone into a self-care tool for your mental health. Self-care is a broad term, it can be defined as something we do that tends to our…
