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Depression Roundtable, Part III: Feeling Better

Welcome to Part II of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Parts I and II can be found here and here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
This week, our band of scriptural sisters share how they’ve successfully managed their clinical depression. These personal experiences are being shared for [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part II: Depression and Spirituality

Welcome to Part II of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. Part I can be found here. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
Priscilla: I was 27 when I had my third child and first post partum depression. At least, that what I thought it was, so I read books [...]

Depression Roundtable, Part I: In the Beginning

Welcome to Part I of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series about depression. If you haven’t already read the series overview, please do so before proceeding.
In this post, our group members introduce themselves by describing how they came to recognize depression as a problem in their life. Depression is an untidy concept, and our semantics reflect that. [...]

UP CLOSE: Depression Roundtable Series Overview

Today marks the debut of Segullah’s UP CLOSE series on depression. These posts (weekly throughout March) are excerpts from a conversation amongst Segullah staff members, including myself, who live with clinical depression. We have taken pseudonyms for privacy purposes. I’m currently moderating a similar series of posts at By Common Consent.
Every human being is occasionally [...]

Through My Window

Stephanie is a not-so-young mom of three young children.  Her daily life consists mostly of caring for her family, finding matching socks, thinking of something to make for dinner, reading or writing something that uplifts her, and occasionally shaving her legs.  Stephanie blogs about finding faith in the trenches of motherhood at Diapers and Divinity. 

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Sisterly Love

When I was a little girl I thought one of the happiest sounds I’d ever heard was my mother laughing with her six sisters. They’d stand around my grandmother’s kitchen, washing the dishes and putting away the Christmas dinner leftovers, laughing so loudly they sounded like the kookaburras that cackled outside my window every morning. [...]

I Learned the Truth at Seventeen

Marla is a Utah native and a professional writer and editor. She is just weeks away (fingers crossed) from completing a master’s degree in English. She loves running, biking, reading, writing, and lurking on the Segullah blog. She blogs at mindofmarla.blogspot.com.
I went to the Victorian exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art a few weeks [...]

Two Mothers to One

Jenny Chamberlain married her high school sweetheart after making him wait until she was darn good and ready. She mothers, quilts, writes and photographs for fun. She bottles peaches and applesauce when coerced.  She blogs about whatever flips her skirt at rowenasrantings.blogspot.com.
My shock from the divorce wore off several months into my father’s second marriage. I [...]

Aren’t I Lucky?

Lyn Greenwood lives in Houston, TX with her husband and two children. She was raised in Colorado, graduated from BYU in Chemical Engineering and has lived in Texas for almost 12 years. She makes a valiant attempt at trying to balance all aspects of her life: loving on her family, working full-time, and training for [...]

Open Eyes, Open Heart

Katrina Anderson is the author of today’s UP CLOSE post. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, three step-kids, and darling toddler son. Another baby will be joining the family this summer. Katrina grew up in Ohio, attended college at BYU, and had a brief career in television news before marrying the love [...]

UP CLOSE: Rushing into Remarriage

Several years ago I took a long walk with my future husband while we planned our life together: how to finish school, where we would live, jobs etc. I’m sure we mentioned our parents in that discussion but didn’t worry about their approval (we already had it) and we certainly didn’t consider the effect that [...]

UP CLOSE: Remarriage/Stepparenting– Call for Submissions

Ready or not the Christmas season is upon us. Holidays are all about families, and few things complicate family relationships like remarriage and step parenting.
I didn’t think remarriage had much to do with me– I hope to be married to my love until we both die at 95 holding hands. But both my brothers are [...]

The Marriage Bed

This morning one of the children woke up too early. He started bouncing a rubber ball against the wall of his room. The steady rhythm woke us up. My husband’s long, dark arm went under the blankets and found me and pulled me to him. We lay there in the morning [...]

Ebbing Tide: Reflections on Entering Menopause

My eleven-year-old daughter, my youngest child, is losing her little girl look. In the last six months she’s sprouted out of her jeans and shirts, her legs suddenly long, her angles and straight lines softening into curves. She closes the door when she showers, asks me when she can start shaving her legs, and wears [...]

Trying to Cure the Seven Year Itch? Scratch It. Often.

 Today’s Up Close post comes from Nan, a cheery and clever woman who delights in her expedition. In her words: “I spent the first 18 years of my life in the same house and ward in Northern Utah. In the decade and a half since, I’ve had 30 different addresses in places as remote as [...]

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