mental health Archives – M.P. Capellan

Familiar, Not Safe

M.P.C. / June 9, 2026

Nothing is particularly special about a day when you wake up feeling gray. Still, I had hoped to hear —

M.P.C. / April 15, 2025

I know stages. So many stages that I now know that the last stage of anything usually means it’s either

M.P.C. / September 3, 2024

Every year around the sun has come with a new challenge since my decades climbed more ladders. I’ve had to

M.P.C. / August 5, 2024

What felt like a breakdown was probably a combination of hormonal changes and the realization that my present was bigger

M.P.C. / June 12, 2024

Sometimes I get up in the morning with the sunshine on my face, and I look in the mirror and

M.P.C. / May 6, 2024

How are you feeling about today? Me? Overwhelmed. Politics, still a pain; climate change, a concept too strange…for many. Not

M.P.C. / October 8, 2023

If I went away, would it even be noticed by anyone? If I stopped creating, would it even make a

M.P.C. / November 28, 2022

I’ve always joked about how “influencers” and Instagram models are going to be so homeless if, one day, IG simply

M.P.C. / June 20, 2022

They say some things are better left unsaid; that silence is golden and never to say anything that doesn’t help

M.P.C. / May 23, 2022

The day I found out perfection couldn’t be achieved, I knew I had one thing and one thing only left

M.P.C. / April 4, 2022

Maybe it has something to do with getting older or maybe it doesn’t. But lately, I’ve been thinking about the

M.P.C. / March 28, 2022

There has never been a more monumental time in our lifetime to honor self-care than the time we’re living in