Connected To Crystal

A Mindful Resource for Healing and Building Mental Fitness

  • My Inner Voice Has Social Anxiety While Christmas Shopping

    My people-pleasing has never been more apparent than yesterday and neither has my social anxiety,- quite the combination for a trip to the local mall! I have been working on the deep-rooted high-functioning codependency that has led me to find it nearly impossible to say no to people. I thought I had made great progress…

  • A Grateful New Year

    I woke up this morning as grateful as always. Fletcher’s lyrics weaved into my thoughts, little braids of curiosity. Before I could forget, I wrote the title Antidote on my bedside notebook in case I find it relevant later. I woke my daughter up for school and let Luna outside to go potty. I put…

  • Just Not Ready To Be A Grandma

    Looking down at this little pack of pills is surreal. Teenage pregnancy prevention at its finest right here in my hand like twenty-five years haven’t passed. I never thought I’d be in this position to decide, again, what kind of birth control to use. Not for me of course. I’m forty and postmenopausal after a…

  • Hello world!

    My name is Crystal! Welcome to my page! I’ve never built a website or created a blog so I appreciate your patience! Have you ever just felt like you were supposed to be doing something? Writing is that thing for me. I wanted to be writing for a newspaper by now and eventually become a…

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