B e a r i n g Witness

As I write this, Nick and I are sitting at Starbucks. He's sitting across from me working on policies and procedures for our business....

Nick uttered (or sometimes yelled) these words to me more times than I can possibly count. "You don't understand!" became a daily phrase...

When Nick got rid of his video games, it was the start of his recovery. It was not the day everything suddenly got better. There isn't a...

By now, we've all heard the rally cries to "end the stigma" surrounding mental illness. And while there is a stigma that surrounds mental...

Dear Daisy, You were the first one to know. You were my first confidant. You knew from the beginning that something was wrong. I watched...

Alcohol began to play a role in coping with Nick's mental illness - for both of us. That's not to say that either one of us ever met the...

May 1, 2020 will always be a day Nick and I celebrate. Beyond it being my mom's birthday (hi, Mom!) it's the day Nick started his next...

I've been delaying this topic for a while. It's hard to talk about for a multitude of reasons. Before I go on, I want to make it...

Imagine this: you work in an office and you have two bosses. One boss wants to expand the number of services the business offers. The...

So far, I've covered two of four mindset shifts: You can't solve an internal problem with external solutions. There's room for tough love...

Nick's daily schedule was starting to look a lot like this: sleep in (until hours I've never known him to sleep in to), get up, play...

Over the coming weeks, I'll be sharing some of the mindset shifts I had to make while supporting Nick through his mental illness. These...

In 2018, Nick lost his dad, family dog, and then his aunt - all within a 3-month period. A few days after his aunt passed, we were...

Caregiving. It is hard, and few understand why. It is not for the meek, the mild, the despairing. It is not the day-to-day tasks, really:...

The kidney stone debacle was behind us. We were sitting at just over $30,000 in medical debt. Nick's mental health was at an all-time...

Hi everyone! My name is Nick. I'm Erica’s husband. I have OCD, otherwise known as obsessive-compulsive disorder. In short, OCD means that...

I'm going to pause sharing our story for a minute. From what you've read up until this point I'm sure you recognize that I felt...

The prescriptions were for percocets and another drug used for kidney stones; although I forget which one. I put the prescriptions in my...

Around this time, Nick had started mentioning thoughts of driving his car off one of the Colorado mountain roads with hopes he wouldn't...

My memory of the timeline of events gets hazy after we moved to Colorado. I was so overwhelmed that I truthfully have no idea if my...