Has It Really Been a Year?
A year and some change has passed since my last entry, but a truckload of life has happened. I became a grandmother, or "Gigi," if you will. My darling grandson is now 7 months. His giant smile and zest for life has been a boon in all the rigorous recovery I've been living through. Not long after my last post, I discovered two life-changing resources. The first was Claire Weekes' book, "Hope and Help For Your Nerves" (recommended by a friend) and the second was a Christian "anxiety coach" I found online. I read the Claire Weekes book and knew I'd found exactly the explanation for why my world turned upside down in 2024. Then I stumbled upon my coach's youtube channel and found a world I did not know existed--a world of people who were all walking through the same nightmare in their body that I was experiencing. The old-school way of referring to what happened to me (and 3% of all Americans) is "a nervous breakdown." But that is ...
