GlassWing Counseling

03/21/2026

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03/16/2026

NAMI Minnesota is looking for people in Greater Minnesota who want to make a difference by sharing their voice and helping young people learn about mental health.

We are recruiting speakers to present Ending the Silence, our 50-minute mental health education program for high school students. This presentation helps students better understand mental health, learn about su***de prevention, know where to get help, and challenge the stigma that too often keeps people from speaking up.

We are especially looking for individuals who live with a mental illness or have a loved one with a mental illness and are passionate about advocacy and education. Speakers help students understand that mental health challenges are common and that no one has to face them alone.

Presentations take place in high schools outside the seven-county Twin Cities metro area during school hours, with flexible scheduling. NAMI Minnesota provides paid training, and speakers are compensated $20 per hour. Mileage to schools in your area is also reimbursed.

If you are interested in becoming an Ending the Silence instructor and helping bring mental health education to students across Greater Minnesota, contact Angela Moore Smith at directorofoutreach@namimn.org

03/13/2026

You see, I used to believe that if I could only explain it correctly, if I could find the precise, undeniable, irrefutable sequence of events, they would have no choice but to see that they were wrong. I thought truth was a thing you could press into someone's hands. I thought if I laid it out carefully enough, they'd have to hold it.

But people who need to believe they did nothing wrong are extraordinarily skilled at not holding things. They'll set your truth down, walk around it, describe it as something else entirely, return to it later as evidence of your instability.

You were too sensitive. You pushed them to it. You misunderstood. You always had a problem with them, if you're honest. The things they did, the cruelty, the betrayal, the slow erosion of your confidence, have been reclassified, quietly and completely, as your fault.

And they believe it. That is the part that takes the longest to accept. They are not lying to you. They believe they were right; they are always right. They are lying to themselves, and they have been doing it long enough that it feels like the truth. SMH

You are not going to out-argue someone out of a story they need to survive in. That story is load-bearing. Take it away and something in them collapses. And they know it, even if they have no language for knowing it. So they hold on. Not to you, to the version of events that keeps them intact. I mean, they gave up on you the moment the reality you insist upon conflicts with their version of events.

So, waiting for their honesty before you begin your own recovery is handing them a second power over you. The first power was what they did. The second is the veto they now hold over when you're allowed to be okay.

Every day you stay suspended, waiting for the confession that unlocks your healing, is another day they are still running your life, not actively, not even knowingly, just by their absence of remorse.

You have to begin your healing journey without the apology. And this doesn't mean pretending the hurt didn't happen. It means deciding that your wholeness does not require their participation.

You do not need them to name what they did for it to have been real. You were there. You know what happened. Your body knows. The parts of you that still flinch at certain tones of voice know. The truth of what you lived does not become more true when they finally confirm it, and it does not become less true because they never will.

You are allowed to heal from something that was never officially acknowledged. You are allowed to close a chapter that the other person refuses to admit was ever opened.

03/08/2026

Take time to recognize your blessings today and count them. You'll find plenty.

03/08/2026

To every woman reading this today: your journey deserves to be honored. 🌷

Not because it was easy,
but because you kept going.

Because even on the days when no one noticed,
you still chose to stand, to care, and to move forward.

✨Happy International Women’s Day
to every woman walking her path with courage and heart.

With love,
Alice

03/08/2026

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03/06/2026

02/24/2026

I had an experience tonight on facebook, where I saw someone I don't know talking about su***de and saying goodbye to their animals. Because I don't know them I didn't know if I should all 911 or not, but then I found out that if you see on facebook that someone has made a suicidal comment, you can report that to facebook and they will follow up on it!

Here is the link on facebook in case you want to learn more.https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/305410456169423

02/14/2026

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02/01/2026

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