by Kirsty | Jul 26, 2012 | Mental Health, Parents, Special Needs
I’m a little blocked when it comes to the blog lately. I have no shortage of ideas swirling through my brain but I can make none of them stick. I could complain about how busy I am right now. How work is manic and home is chaotic. How I seem to never have a...
by Kirsty | Jul 16, 2012 | Mental Health, Parents, Special Needs
Sometimes I feel suffocated. Sometimes I feel trapped by everything I am and everything I think I need to do. Sometimes the sheer weight of obligation and expectation and responsibility feels too much to bear. Sometimes I want to escape. I want to quit everything. I...
by Kirsty | Jan 6, 2012 | Mental Health, Parents, Relationships
There are more times than not when I feel too tired to bother being social or to organise get togethers. I think we all feel that way sometimes after a big day wrangling kids or battling away at work. Problem for me, I feel like that all the time and I have gotten...
by Kirsty | Dec 5, 2011 | Autism, Special Needs
I found out today that a well respected, popular and active part of our local autism community took their own life over the weekend. I didn’t know this person personally but we were mutual members of several local autism facebook groups and I had attended a few...
by Kirsty | Aug 12, 2011 | Mental Health, Parents, Relationships
I wrote a post recently about feeling human again, about taking time-out from being a wife and mum and just being me for a while. And it got me thinking about how very grateful I am for having the chance to have some time-out. The chances don’t come along every...
