Different types of treatment including medication

Melanie Kaufman and Square One Yoga

Coping Skills, Meditation, Mental Illness, Treatment

In the last years, I have turned to yoga both as a low impact exercise and a spiritual practice in an effort to counteract the side effects of medication and find inner peace.

French Trail: Open the Senses

Coping Skills, Mental Illness, Treatment

Octavia Buttler once said, “habit will sustain you whether you are inspired or not.” She said that in relation to writing, but I think it applies to life in general. Establishing an exercise habit is key to the success of my self-imposed, endorphin-producing regime. Yoga twice a week, once-a-week-walk in the San Leandro Marina, and…

Canyon Meadows at High Noon

Coping Skills, Mental Illness, Treatment

I can’t see the future clearly, what’s far ahead is blurred behind a distant haze. I can only focus on what’s in front of me, the next step on the trail, one foot behind the other.