November is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. I know what some of you are thinking: “Well, that’s nice, but who’s checking on us?” This is for you if you’re holding everything together. You manage the household. You make the decisions. You initiate the hard conversations. You serve as the spiritual leader, the emotional anchor, the one who remembers everyone’s needs except your own. Let’s be honest about something we don’t say out loud. Many of us are attached to men who a

For as long as I can remember, something was just different about me. Not different in the "special snowflake" way that every parent tells their kid they are. Different in the way that made me feel like I was carrying around a second version of myself that nobody else could see. As a child, I didn't have words for what was happening. I just knew that I would look at people and know  things about them. Things no one had ever told me. I'd have visions, see things that hadn't ha

October has always been complicated for me. It's my birthday month, October 4th, to be exact, and if you know anything about birthdays,...