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Men's Mental Health Awareness Month
May was Mental Health Awareness month, which as you all know is very important to me. Our mental health is something that often gets...

Kristy C
Jun 7, 20243 min read


The Bridge
Many moons ago during a therapy session, my therapist read me this short story. I was struggling with where my place was in many forms...

Kristy C
May 11, 20245 min read


Mental Health and our American Heroes
This past weekend Home Team Creations was honored to participate in Kappasigmastan’s Annual Military Heroes Car Show event. Honoring our...

Kristy C
May 6, 20244 min read


May is Mental Health Awareness Month
While mental health is an important factor in everyday life, we take this month to highlight and bring awareness to it. For years, people...

Kristy C
May 5, 20243 min read


Pain and Suffering
Trigger Warning (TW): Suicide For weeks and weeks after Tim passed, I would put my shoes on, put Sadie on her leash and walk past the...

Kristy C
Apr 24, 20244 min read


Life is Heavy
Do you ever feel like the Universe (or whoever your higher power is), just dumps on you? Like one thing after another, the hits just keep...

Kristy C
Apr 5, 20244 min read


Intrusive Thoughts
Disclaimer: I will be talking about my experience with suicide and details about Tim’s death. If you find these to be hard topics, I...

Kristy C
Feb 6, 20243 min read


We never truly know what someone is going through
Disclaimer, I will be talking about suicide, I will be talking about bi-polar disorder, I will be talking about mania and survivors of...

Kristy C
Jan 24, 20247 min read


Smiling through it
I saw a quote the other day that said, ‘I smile to stop myself from crying’ and I felt that. Following that I saw one that said, ‘You...

Kristy C
Jan 14, 20242 min read


Survival Mode
This phrase can mean so many things. When I think about survival mode, I think about doing what we have to, in order to keep going....

Kristy C
Dec 27, 20234 min read


Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
This year Survivors of Suicide Loss Day happens to fall on my birthday, November 18th. How appropriate, right? At first, I was I was...

Kristy
Nov 14, 20232 min read


YOU Matter
As most of you know by now I'm very passionate about Mental Health Advocacy and trying to break the cycle of mental health being taboo...

Kristy
Nov 8, 20232 min read


Survivor's Grief
This is where I am and this is where I am stuck. For some reason I can’t move passed this and today I googled how long does it take to...

Kristy
Oct 31, 20237 min read


Underneath it all...
A sweet friend of mine posted something the other day that hit me to the core. She has recently come out on the upside of battling stage...

Kristy
Sep 5, 20233 min read


Failed by the System: Part 2 Reflection
After I wrote my last blog about being failed by a specific “mental health” facility, I had so much anger in me. I am resentful towards...

Kristy
Aug 20, 20234 min read


Life is Weird... Creating Boundaries is Good!
I think it’s safe to say that when we hear someone has passed, we don’t know what to say. Death is weird, awkward, and sometimes makes...

Kristy
Aug 17, 20237 min read
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