by gemma | Jun 21, 2012 | health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
If you’ve read my story, then you know I have had a history of mental health struggles. Here’s what I do to keep myself healthy so that I can avoid the trap of slipping back into the darkness: Presence. Over and over again I remind myself that Now is not Then. And the...
by gemma | Mar 21, 2012 | beloved & praised, goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
Throughout our lives, we receive so many messages about how we ‘should’ be living our lives and what the ‘right’ goals and dreams are. The well-intentioned expectations of others can muddy our truth and cause us to lose our direction and...
by gemma | Mar 2, 2012 | beloved & praised, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
In life there are some moments that have the potential to change everything. One of my moments came when I was twenty-four, deeply depressed, highly medicated, sitting in my bathtub taking gulps of red wine between sobs of heart-breaking sorrow. Messy. When I was in...