Amanda Regas - Part 4

09/09/19

National Suicide Prevention Week: Overcoming Our Fear of Helping

Recognition of the need to discuss and address mental health has become more commonplace. However, the reality of dealing with it on a personal level, when it impacts our close friends or us as an individual, continues to feel messy, embarrassing and even bewildering.

Thus, Anxiety and depression continue to be dangerously isolating. And the repercussions can include death.

Maybe clarity can emerge if we find a comparable situation, a time when we know how to react when someone needs us to hold space.

Think about it; it is like helping someone with cancer.

09/07/19

Old School Magic

Moments like this are not a given anymore, even though ages 8 and 13 sound a heartbeat apart. Unless that is, you are a parent. And then you know one smiles and giggles regularly while the other’s feelings are fleeting. I readily solve the little one’s heartbreaks, but the older ones pain is real now and more likely cured lifted… Read More

05/11/19

Strange Mother’s Day

Photo credit: Mari Andrews My husband and my daughters have been the sole focus of my life for nearly 17 years, and my old existence consisted entirely of my mother and my childhood. And there are no overlapping memories of these key figures. That makes for a strange Mother’s Day. If you have a strange Mother’s Day, for any one… Read More

03/07/19

Simplicity – Lent

Inhale, Exhale It is well It is well All of this Is a part Of the story You will tell ~Morgan Harper Nichols Over the last few years, I have been spinning in circles and searching for a purpose. And as much fun as that endless shame spiral was, this year I am giving peace and calm a… Read More

02/24/19

All Things New

“When you are in alignment, helpful people show up from out of nowhere, everything happens at perfect timing, you feel as though the universe is arranging everything for you. And that’s exactly what’s happening.” -Jane Lightworker Replace “the universe” with God, and it’s my truth. The past months have been calm, even amongst regular stress. There has been no perfection,… Read More

02/14/19

Agape

I have always liked Valentine’s Day, and it’s not because of a need to be fawned over. Although, if you want to fawn over me, I will gladly accept your fawnery. For my family, it’s a day for glorious tablescapes adorned with tacky glitter flowers and Target’s fanciest dollar area paper plates and cups, and the joy it brings an… Read More