Mental facility

Getting to the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St Joseph, MO has been the #1 goal since I started this blog, and it's also the #1 "tip" I receive from readers. Since it is so popular, and since I'm having such a hard time paring down the 200 pictures we took, I'm going to divide this into two parts. Today we're going to talk about the history of the building and of psychiatric treatment. The Glore Psychiatric Museum started as the collection of George Glore, who worked for the Missouri…

Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum 2012

For decades, Santa Barbara was said to be the only county in which law enforcement officers were not empowered to write 5150 holds for people experiencing such acute mental health woes that they posed a risk to themselves or to others, or qualified as “gravely disabled.” As the plight of the mentally ill has increasingly occupied public discourse, this “factoid” has been repeated until it achieved the stature of historical fact. It served to underscore the acute and chronic shortage of bed…

When you are a NICU Mom, you go through things no mother should ever have to experience. Even though you may feel alone, I'm here to tell you you're not.

Bethany shares the story of her doula-attended hospital birth and how she felt empowered to make the choices that were right for her.