The first year I started teaching in Port Arthur, I wanted to bring To Write Love On Her Arms’ Between the Bells suicide prevention program for high school to my school. Our principal said no. Last year, I started teaching in Beaumont and talked to my new principal about the program. He said yes. OurContinueContinue reading “How I helped bring TWLOHA’s Between the Bells program to the high school where I teach”
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Healing is a process: How my life changed the day my dad crashed into an 18-wheeler head on
This is one of the more difficult memories that surfaces for me every year as winter fades into spring. The first picture is from May 1, 1997. I’m with my parents and my baby sister outside Sterling McCall Toyota in Houston. My dad finally decided what kind of truck he wanted to buy, as partContinueContinue reading “Healing is a process: How my life changed the day my dad crashed into an 18-wheeler head on”
Still learning to love myself: Through eating disorder recovery
Content note: discussion of eating disorders One year ago, I’d just started a new job, and the first paycheck wouldn’t come for a whole month. I experienced food insecurity and unstable housing both in college and afterwards. The fear of not making it was so loud in my mind, and a little thought said: “JustContinueContinue reading “Still learning to love myself: Through eating disorder recovery”
So I’m turning 29: World Suicide Prevention Day 2018
Originally posted on Facebook on August 31, 2018. Hi guys. Somehow I’ve made it through another year, and I lived to tell the tale. Turning 29 feels old because I’m still young inside. It’s kind of like the end of the book “Fog Magic” when Greta tells her father she thinks getting older is likeContinueContinue reading “So I’m turning 29: World Suicide Prevention Day 2018”
The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse
Originally posted on Facebook April 20, 2018. So for those of you who’ve been around me a while know that I came out of a fundamentalist Christian background, and I’ve been working on weeding those things out of my life for several years. Those old thought patterns were rooted in some people’s unhealthy desires toContinueContinue reading “The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse”
Eleanor Skelton 