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At the beginning of the year we focused on the topic of Anxiety and healthy steps we could take to manage it. Almost half way through 2021, we felt it was time to revisit the subject.  We started the year off anxiously awaiting COVID19 vaccines and now, thanks to amazing science and brilliant minds, they are here!  Now the anxiety tends to linger about what is safe, what is normal now, are we back to a life where people expect us to be social and accomplish things?  

Hello Darlings!  Welcome to Pride Month!

Words are powerful tools.  They can convey feelings and emotions in a way that can make you feel on top of the world or in the very depths of despair.  They can impart support and love or tear you down in the blink of an eye.  Beautiful words can make us feel like we can accomplish anything, or they can make you feel like you are worthless and will never amount to anything.  

May is Mental Health Awareness month.  On Supporgroups.com, Mental Health Awareness is our everyday goal.  In the year 2021 having a mental illness should be normalized, not just because it is a very common issue, but because we should be evolved enough to know that what we hide only festers.  We are however, subconsciously or consciously, still taught to keep the “less than perfect” things about ourselves hidden away.  We would venture a guess that most people would be more comfortable talking about their bathroom habits then the issues they deal with mentally.

Birthdays and holidays make us introspective, we start thinking about life, our own lives specifically.  These passage of time markers seem to come back around faster and faster each year!  Every year we make goals, some of us write them out, some of us mark them on calendars and journals, and some of us just file them away mentally.  Goals regarding education, life events, travel, mental health, physical health...we set them and often forget them, until we reach another birthday, holiday or life milestone and suddenly we remember to look back over the last few months to see