Thank You, & Goodbye (Sort Of)

Hi lovely reader, I hope you're having a really great weekend and getting some sunshine and rest. Today I'm posting about something bitter-sweet; I'm not going to be using this blog anymore. Since I started Two Girls and a Calico Cat, I have accumulated so many wonderful followers, and read so many comments that moved …

Gradual vs. ‘Forced’ Growth

Hi lovely readers, Happy Friday! I know many of you are likely back at work these days, so I hope you're looking forward to your weekend and that it is restful, or full of all the exciting newfound freedoms we have as quarantine begins to lift. My last post was quite heavy, and when I …

Things I Wish I Could Explain to the People Who Love/Care for Someone with Severe Mental Illness

Hi lovely readers, Happy Tuesday. Things are beginning to return to partial normalcy here in Canada, though of course businesses require that you wear a mask and we still aren't supposed to gather in groups larger than 10. It is hard for me to remember a lot of quarantine, because some of it was very …

What is Bipolar 1 Disorder?

Hi lovely readers, I hope you are all staying healthy, safe, and sane. I'm so sorry for my absence, but not only was my laptop broken, but I also was barely functioning enough to get out of bed to eat or drink water, even. Thankfully things are beginning to open up, which is encouraging for …

May & June Beauty Favorites

Hi lovely readers, Happy Saturday! Yay, the weekend! Although, seeing as a lot of workplaces aren't open yet here, you may still be in a state of perma-weekend, like I am, though I do have online summer course work. The current state of the world is scary, and confusing, and heavy. I think we are …

Yoga for Sadness, Stress, and Depression: My Tool for a Day of Self-Compassion

Hi lovely readers, Happy Friday :). It has been a long week, for me at least, or month, or 3 months, maybe... haha. This morning I woke up the same way I have been for quite a while; I felt heavy and yet anxious and wary of yet another 24 hours during which I would …

Goals for June 2020

Hi lovely readers, Happy Wednesday! I hope in terms of COVID, wherever you live is starting to return to some semblance of normalcy, and that you are staying healthy, safe, and sane. I decreased the dose of one of my medications recently, and it seemed to trigger a very long and severe depressive episode, and …

BlackLivesMatter

Hi lovely readers, I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long - I was in such a debilitating depressive episode that near the end I wasn't even getting out of bed to shower or eat or drink water. It was one of the worst I've had in years, and likely had a lot to do …

Blog Refresh

Hi lovely readers, It is so exciting to read all of your insightful and encouraging comments when I post these days, and to see I have some new readers, as well. I want to say thank you for your interest in my blog, and my experiential advice, and I hope that you are either finding …

Thinking Positively with Mental Illness: Realities & How Tos

Hi lovely readers, Well, we're all still in Quarantine here in Canada, and it sucks, it really does. Over the last few months my mood has been on a more rapid decline that I can really remember it ever having been. I have felt impulses and had thoughts that I haven't in almost a year, …