Welcome to this episode of The Student Affairs Spectacular Podcast! We’re very happy to welcome back Sue Caulfield to the show this week! She speaks with Dustin about what[...]

How many times a day do we ask, or are we asked, “how are you?” Countless. This simple phrase has become a common courtesy in our culture, but those three words lack me[...]

A few nights ago, I had an extremely vivid dream – as people with depression are wont to do. In the dream, I was dying – I had been given a few days by a doctor and was[...]

You wake up. You don’t want to get out of bed because your thoughts won’t let you. Later you’ll want to explain this paralysis, but you’re ashamed of it, and you don’t quite unders[...]

Since my post last year a few things have changed. Most notably I worked with my therapist to be approved for an emotional support animal and adopted a nine-year-old female pitbull[...]

This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. – Perks Of Bei[...]

Last year I told a story of how I was committed to speaking my truth as an outside contribution to the Committed series. Since that day, so much has changed and at the same time, s[...]

I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in yo[...]

Being very type-A, hyper organized, and a striving perfectionist, it has been my lot in life to be a little more, and sometimes a lot more, stressed than those around me. The right[...]

When my depression diagnosis came through at fifteen, I thought the doctor was wrong.  I was upset that a doctor would think I could have something so detrimental – I was jus[...]