Now I understand it all quite differently – how my mental illness saved me.
-LEAH KIM
SELECTED WRITING:
Leah K on her traumatic birth and the darkness of postpartum depression
Motherly
Why I Sense Threats Everywhere and Panic All the Time
Tiny Buddha
Hungry and Panicked? The Link Between Food and Anxiety
Tiny Buddha
How Feeling Out of Control as a Kid Led Me to an Eating Disorder
Tiny Buddha
How to Live in Hope & Gratitude—even when Sad, Tragic, Scary, Awful Things Happen.
Elephant Journal
LEAH’S SUBSTACK:
Han cannot be translated simply into an English word. It encompasses the emotions of rage, despair, regret, sorrow, grief and so much more.
Notes from an ex-Catholic on faith.
As a mother, and frankly as a basic human being, I simply cannot look the other way knowing about the atrocities happening RIGHT NOW and especially to children. All children are innocent, full stop.
We are constantly in relationship with the world and with each other so as long as there is “war,” oppression, and injustice, we cannot on an individual level be well, free, or at peace.
But at this point? I can no longer find any rationale except that you care about your own comfort, convenience, business, and privilege over that of the collective.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin