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[Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post comes from Stephanie, and she brings a little something different today: a poem on postpartum depression. It’s beautifully written. It’s also a piece many mamas who have suffered postpartum depression...
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[Editor’s Note: We have something special for you today. It’s a poem from Postpartum Progress board member, Deborah Rimmler. Maybe it’s just what you need to read today, coming off the high or low of Mother’s Day. -Jenna] Call...
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Fear and Loathing in Iraq ...see if I can remember hold on.. Act One: We gotta address the silence, taking us out. It’s an honor to mediate the psychology of death. To witness an atrocity is a life sentence of suicidal thinking. To atone, live, die or share. Act Two: Boom! Driving under the hump of night...
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I’m so happy to welcome Warrior Mom Rachel Barenblat to Postpartum Progress today, sharing her poetry around postpartum depression. When I look back now, I can’t believe it took me so long to recognize the postpartum depression for what it...
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL Our Mother's Day 2011 celebration has proven to be one of the best days of my life. I finally got to see my grandson, Michael, after his time stationed in Afghanistan. He looked fantastic with his new muscular body and...
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I received this poem on November 27, 2008, PTSD On false pretext they sent me off To murder and create, But there, ´twas hard to hold aloof Vacuity of hate, And now the matter rests with me But I don´t rest at all, And it may be PTSD But I´m not blessed at all. We are the men "that don´t fit in...
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INSECTS!! (Sung to: She'll Be comin' Round the Mountain) They'll be flying 'round the flowers in the yard. Buzz buzz. (flap hands) They'll be flying 'round the flowers in the yard. Buzz buzz. They'll be flying 'round the...
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INDEPENDENCE DAY In the year of 1776 That paper was decreed - They were tired of oppression And wanted to be freed . They wrote a Declaration So the whole world would see This was, "the home of the brave And the land of the free". They signed...
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Military Moms This year on Mother's Day We should think of offspring lost And Mothers of all those Troops Who paid the ultimate cost. They've watched Sons and Daughters Sent off to a foreign land To fight wars and give their all In some conflicts...
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Mother's Day by Sherry The kindest face I'll ever see, The kindest voice I'll ever hear. The one who cares the most for me Is my own mother dear. All through the year I'll try to do The things that show My love for you. And not be happy...
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Click on the image to enlarge, copy and print. Spider Facts Spiders are not insects. Insects have three body parts and six legs. Spiders have eight eyes, eight legs, two body parts, outside skeletons, and fangs. They do not have antennas or wings. Males...
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Have you ever felt so sad, that sad where zoning out can mask momentarily? Where a laugh can give you a spritzer of joy, but falls flat into felling of sorrow? I do not want to take my medications anymore, they make me feel less of a man. I want to feel my virility as I effortlessly strum her passion...
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Picture Books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson Summer fading, winter comes-- Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing...
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Generational consequences abound with the wars of today, especially the soldiers and veterans, for they have been spiritually wounded. But, I feel the revival of a movement birthing. One of acceptance and healing, instead of the current paradigm of rejection and exclusivity.