A Guest Post By Cherise Young During a morning of Scripture reading, I came across some passages where Job compares his former “glory days” to feeling like an outcast. Job’s words resonated with me. I understood what it’s like to go from feeling respected and valued to feeling left out and mishandled. In Job 30:19,…
Tag: Depression
Suicide Is Preventable
A Guest Post By Cherise Young In 2010, just two years after September was deemed National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I led my first suicide prevention training. Based on the discussion during that training, it was apparent that viewing suicide as preventable was a rather new concept. In fact, saying “suicide is a preventable public…
Grief & Loss: Sometimes It Just Hits Different
A Guest Post By Cherise Young Around this time in 2020, I, Cherise, wrote of feeling weary. Having dealt with six months of a global pandemic that entailed isolation, collective loss, and traumatic images playing across multiple media outlets… I was tired… weary. Well, 2022 has been another heavy year. This time the yuck hit…
Basking In Solar Powered Wellness
A Guest Post by Cherise Young The Sunshine Vitamin Many will attest that there is nothing quite like being outside, head thrown back, with eyes closed as the sun pours over our bodies. Over the past 20 years or so, we have been constantly warned about the ill effects of too much sun. I now…
Better Out Than In
A Guest Post by Cherise Young One of the not-so-appropriate things my father would say during my childhood was, “Better out than in!” In case you didn’t guess his reason, it had to do with bouts of flatulence. Not, “Excuse me.” No, “Begging your pardon.” It was, “Better out than in,” more times than not….
A Wellness & Wanderlust Journal ― Candace Aliké Smith, Founded 2015 