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Hope and Mental Illness

June 8, 2018 by Miranda Leave a Comment

Hey, framily. Life is a lot right now, isn’t it? If you’re feeling that heaviness, you’re not alone. The news has been hard this week, especially for those of us with depression and anxiety and mental illness in our medical histories. People like me. People like a lot of my friends. Maybe even people like you….

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The Social Media Narrative of Motherhood: How the Internet Responds to Tragedy

July 3, 2016 by Miranda 2 Comments

postpartum psychosis

[This post may be triggering for some readers. YMMV.] It seems the media has been rife with stories of mothers who have harmed or fatally wounded their children this week. The social media narrative surrounding it all is about to make me crazy. A mom in Texas shot her daughters during a “family meeting” because…

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Why I Climb | Climb Out of the Darkness 2016

June 14, 2016 by Miranda 1 Comment

Climb Out of the Darkness Atlanta Stone Mountain

We’re FOUR DAYS AWAY from the 2016 Climb Out of the Darkness. Four days away from the third year in a row where I’ll join postpartum depression survivors, locally and globally, to raise awareness of an illness which will affect 1 in 7 moms. If you want to know why I climb, there’s little else…

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Climb Out of the Darkness 2015

May 15, 2015 by Miranda 1 Comment

Last year, on the longest day of the year, I climbed a mountain. Stone Mountain, to be exact. It wasn’t Everest, but it felt like it. I thought about quitting half way up. I wanted to turn around and walk back down the mountain, content to have gone as far as I could, not caring…

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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Climb Out of the Darkness

June 25, 2014 by Miranda 3 Comments

I will never forget the relief I felt the first time someone looked at me and said “Miranda, you’re depressed. This is depression.” In that moment, my moods, the sadness, anger, rage, all of it, had a place. Slowly, with therapy, dedication to getting better, and through the twists of fate which started me on…

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