5 Minutes of Sanity with Elena

 A long long while ago, I started a blog.  I went all out, too.  I bought a domain (which I have maintained over the years) and I spent hours writing and rewriting...and rewriting...my first post.  And, I made a commitment to myself that I would maintain that blog. Then I wrote the second post and rewrote it and rewrote it again. I don't think I ever got to the third post. The idea of writing out a thought and turning it into a post just seemed so...daunting to me.   The intention was there.  I wanted to reconnect to this time and space where I loved to write and share that with others. Except that was many years. Many years before I had kids and suffered a severe depressive breakdown and was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and spent many years in therapy.  I want to write because I love the idea of writing being therapeutic. But, I spend more time trying to just get to my thoughts that I write nothing.  And, then, when I have something to say, I...