• How Are My Nails?
    Mar 24 2025
    Join Ren as she share more about her mental health journey with anxiety and depression. She shares about her treatments, including medications, TMS, and Spravato. Ren shares how her Self Health Check top 3 indicators are gages that tell her how is she really doing. Her nails are one of the top 3 in her Self Health Check. How Are My Nails? talks about how her nails help her know how she is doing.
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    15 mins
  • My World Got Small
    Feb 17 2025
    In today's episode Ren shares about her agoraphobia. The fear of not being able to control any environment outside of her home, which may lead to a pain attack and possibly a panic attack.
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    13 mins
  • Where the Wild Things Are
    Feb 3 2025
    Join Ren as she shares about waking up last week in a terrible rage. The first thing that came to Ren's mind was a children's book by Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are. That my anger was roaring it's terrible roar, the pain gnashing it's terrible teeth, the frustration rolling it's terrible eyes, and the muscle spasms were showing its terrible claws. Just like Max, Ren needed to take control of her wild things.
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    10 mins
  • I Wish You Enough
    Jan 27 2025
    Join Ren today as she shared the story I Wish You Enough by Bob Perks. This story closely connects to Ren's thoughts about the Sweet with the Sour. With the sweet comes the sour. May the sour help you appreciate the sweet, and may the sweet help take away the bitterness of the sour. Always, I wish you enough!
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    7 mins
  • The Teacup
    Jan 20 2025

    In last week's episode Ren shared what the Sweet with the Sour means to her. How the phrase has helped shape her life to always mine for the sweet, and that the sour helps the sweet taste that much sweeter.


    Today's episode is about a poem that helped Ren get through many difficult moments in her life. To hold on, continue believing and knowing that the pain and suffering would be for something much greater beyond anything she could see.


    Enjoy the poem of The Teacup, potter (author) unknown

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    7 mins
  • The Sour Helps the Sweet Taste That Much Sweeter
    Jan 15 2025

    In today's episode, Ren explain "The Sweet with the Sour". How this phrase has been an important part of living her life.


    That with the sour, there is sweet. At times that sweet may not show up right away. It may take mining for the sweet, or years to pass, reveling the blessings in the sour. The sour also helps the sweet taste that much sweeter. Continue to mine for the sweet in your life.

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    13 mins
  • The Dark Gray
    Sep 6 2024

    In today's episode, Ren shares a poem she wrote called The Dark Gray.


    The Dark Gray was written in a time of the sour, the deep dark gray. A time of high anxiety and depression. It was shared so others may be able to relate and feel they are not alone. There are those dark gray moments within all of the shades of gray. The great thing to remember and hold onto, those moments of dark gray don't last. There is sweet that is coming.


    In the United States: If you, or someone you know is in crisis not, please contact the Crisis Lifeline at 988

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    4 mins
  • If You Can Name It You Can Tame It
    Aug 3 2024

    Join Ren as she shares more about the hashtag she uses in some of her Facebook posts #IfYouCanNameItYouCanTameIt

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    5 mins