Depression hurts. Blogging helps.

I'm a Mormon, a mother, a wife, a reader, a writer, and a creator of all things crafty. I love my family, people, the arts, laughing, exercising, shopping, and I love life. This blog is my crazy, often comical, chronicle of living a joyful life with depression and anxiety. It's also where I write about...well, pretty much whatever I feel like. Why did I start this blog? I was lying in bed one night not too long ago thinking about this cutesy craft blog I wanted to start. As I planned various projects in my mind, a thought popped into my head, "Does the world need another craft blog, especially when so many others do it so well?" No. I started thinking about the many private conversations I'd had with friends about their struggles with depression. I felt impressed to start a blog about the every day ups and downs of depression and anxiety, but I put it off for a while. I wasn't sure I wanted to put my depression out in the open for everyone to read about. But, in the end, all the inaccurate stereotypes t