January, 2024 - The Graceful Boon

What We All Need To Know About Postpartum Psychosis

This is a continuation of the previous post, so if you haven’t read it, read that one first. It was very tough to write. For a while, I even contemplated on scrapping it and not posting it at all. But I also felt I owed it to this blog and to my readers to show even my most vulnerable state of mind. It’d be hypocritical of me to only write about things that only affected me in the past. The news of my (former) friend hit me hard, and here, I tell you everything EVERYONE, not just new mothers, need to know about postpartum psychosis.

The Do’s (And The Don’ts) For A New Mother Postpartum

I started the year 2024 off right. But a few days later, tragedy struck. I heard the worst news about someone who was my closest friend for many years, and someone I was just about ready to reconnect with. So it got me thinking about the DO’s and the DON’Ts for new mothers postpartum. I wish I followed some of my own advice during that first year postpartum. But here I am telling you to be better than me.

How Fran Drescher and Mariska Hargitay’s Sexual Assault Stories Helped Me Understand My Own

Mariska Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson on ‘Law & Order: SVU’, recently wrote an essay that was published on People Magazine where she chronicled her sexual assault story. Reading it helped me understand my own trauma, but Fran Drescher’s (my two previous posts are about her) sexual assault story helped me understand the healing process of it all. And here’s how…

THE LIFE OF A WRITER: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Having mentioned Fran Drescher in a previous blog post that I wrote reminded me of the writer’s strike that halted Hollywood last year, and it made me think of what life as a writer is really like. Here, I give you a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes of a life of a writer.

HOW BEING THE ONE TO TELL YOUR MOM SHE HAS CANCER CHANGES THE WAY YOU SEE HEALTHCARE

This is a blog post coming to you from my good friend, Brittany Tucci, who’s a nurse by profession, telling us how her mom’s cancer diagnosis changed her views on healthcare entirely.

IT’S BEEN PROVEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT QUEER PEOPLE ARE JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE – AND HERE’S HOW.

The very last post of 2023 was all about Barbie and the #WomenSupportingWomen social media movement. And just like I mentioned in the previous blog, sexism isn’t the only problem in our society that needs attention. Homophobia, for one, is another great example of that stigma. I’d been thinking about that a lot, actually. It’s especially true since I’m a bisexual woman. I keep asking myself whether or not my life would be any different if I were to end up with a woman. Here, I tell you how it’s been proven for decades that it wouldn’t be.