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Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO • July 2024

3 Awesome Things About Having Depression

A lighter perspective of living with chronic depression.

Speaking Bipolar Newsletter • May 2024

10 Supportive Things You Can Say to Someone With Bipolar

Learn how to support someone with bipolar from the perspective of someone who lives with it.

Speaking Bipolar Newsletter • March 2024

Suicide is About Wanting to Live: The Paradox of Suicidal Thinking

If you’ve never experienced suicidal thinking, the idea of wanting to end your life seems extreme. It is. It’s extremely painful to wrestle with a brain screaming at you that you’re better off dead. There is a devastating misconception that people considering suicide are visually identifiable. You don’t…

Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO • June 2024

We Need To Talk About Suicide

Discussing the need to talk about a taboo subject in order to address the suicide phenomenon.

Medium • May 2024

It’s Selfish to Say That Suicide is Selfish

It’s Selfish to Say that Suicide is Selfish “People who kill themselves are selfish. They don’t think about the pain they cause the loved ones they leave behind.” As someone who has made multiple attempts to kill myself, statements like these hit me to the core.

Antioch University Seattle • September 2017

Examining the Potential of Utilizing Social Media to Address Employee #Depression in the Workplace

A master's research paper looking at how social media can be utilized to address employee depression in the workplace.

The Mighty • April 2017

Depression and Creativity: Don't Wait Until You Feel Better

The dilemma of the creative process — and this is especially true for artists — is that we impose pressure on ourselves to make impressive, or at least good, creations; they must be meaningful and make sense right off the bat, and if they are none of those things, then self-doubt, fear and discouragement seep in like poison to passion.

Medium • June 2022

Are You Aware of Your Negative Automatic Thoughts?

For the first time, I’m experiencing living without symptoms of depression. It’s wonderful and amazing but it’s taken some getting used to. I’m living a life with stability, ease, and the ability to fully embrace and enjoy the moment. What?!

Medium • July 2021

So You're Thinking About Seeing a Therapist: Tips for Therapy Newbies

Finding a therapist is a daunting task. Heck, thinking about starting therapy can be scary and that fear keeps a lot of people from giving it a try. As someone who has been to a motley of therapists over the past twenty years, I can tell you that therapy is scary and uncomfortable; it’s in the discomfort that opportunities for growth are born and realizations are made. Doing therapeutic work is an investment with positive returns that will last your lifetime but you can’t expect that any thera

The SunBreak • June 2017

SIFF Interview: Writer/Director Nick Naveda and Producers Nancy Taylor and Taylor Grabowsky Share the Magic of ‘Say You Will’

"A recent high school graduate cares for his mother and navigates his first relationship in the wake of his father's suicide." This is an article I wrote for the Seattle International Film Festival about the movie, Say You Will. I interviewed the writer/director and producers about the film, suicide and how it impacts teens.

Artist Home • August 2019

King Youngblood Reigns with Art & Activism: Gypsy Temple’s Cameron Lavi-Jones, Interviewed

Good things come to those who persist and work hard, and that’s absolutely the case with Seattle alt-rock band Gypsy Temple’s debut album, King Youngblood. Frontman Cameron Lavi-Jones has spent the last ten years working on the album, an exceptional display of persistence considering he’s just 20 years old. The band’s 11-song record is a sonic amalgam of 90s alt-rock nostalgia, with hard-hitting head bangers like “Heavy Handed” and “Forget About It” (think Alice in Chains and Rage Against the M