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Cereal for Dinner is dedicated to helping people navigate life with depression and take steps toward wellness.
**Crisis Information: https://www.cerealfordinner.org/resources/crisis/

02/19/2026

WHO ELSE IS ON THE STRUGGLE BUS? THE KID RIGHT HERE IS!

I am in that dead of winter period where I become part wild animal, part overly enthusiastic crafter and it’s getting pretty weird all around.

This is also that time of year — heightened by too many contextual stressors — when it can feel like all bets are off. We’re on autopilot, numbed out, and the things that matter start to fall by the wayside. Brushing teeth, cleaning, painting, connecting, nourishing — just lose their relevance. And this can especially ring true for those of us with mental health challenges.

It has left me with a question I’ve been sitting with for years now — how do we live our lives meaningfully, beyond just getting through the day, when everything feels like it’s burning around us?

I so wish I had an easy, tidy answer, but I am still searching too. Through all these years studying and living and working in behavioral health systems, I do have some ideas. And I know you do too.

So let’s come together and talk about it this Sunday. I would be honored for you to join.

🩶 FREE WORKSHOP: How to Do the Things That Matter (Even When Life Feels Like a Dumpster Fire)

⏰ Sunday 2/22, 12-12:45p EST with Q&A.

🔗 Link in bio to sign up.

01/01/2026

First off: hi hello. Yes it’s been a minute since posting on this social media thing. Here’s proof that CFD has been up to its old shenanigans, just more from behind the curtain.

It’s been a year, guys. Wow. Honestly this is one of the first times in a while I’ve let myself reflect on what has happened and what’s to come. The passage of time has always freaked me out, especially when it has felt like I’ve only been standing still.

I’m starting to learn just how vital reflections and celebrations are, though, even outside of New Years and birthdays. As we continue to navigate through this beautiful, devastating world, it’s so easy to autopilot it- I’ve been there for a long long time.

But if you’ve been ‘through it,’ you know that there are celebrations worth recognizing, even if only you can see how important they are. Getting out of bed in the morning, brushing your teeth and washing your body, letting yourself just breathe, going back to work or school after time off.

So here’s to us who may be celebrating growth in all sorts of ways. An ‘Anything Celebration’ as we call it in Showing Up in Sweatpants. I am so honored to share this space with you, in all its gorgeous imperfection.

11/10/2025

Doing the things we need to do, and especially the things that we want to do, can feel so impossible when our inner and outer worlds are overwhelming and heavy. This year has been so painful in so many ways, and many times my brain is telling me I just can’t do the things- I just have to wait until the fires turn to smoke and then I can life my life again.

Much of my journey with mental health challenges has been a big long waiting game. Wait until the right diagnosis is made, wait until the right medication cocktail is discovered, wait until the distress is gone and I can think clearly again, have a job like a ‘normal person’, feel at peace with the person I am.

The reality is that, I just. kept. waiting. With this notion that I could only engage in things that felt meaningful to me once this distant day arrived when I would return to a person who felt whole and not so overwhelmingly broken.

What I’ve come to realize is this- the way we survive hellishly painful circumstances is not by waiting to live. Even when we’re at our lowest- what truly saves us is doing the things that are nourishing to us, connecting with those remnants of who we are and what we believe in, even in the tiniest of ways. When we remind ourselves that we have a wholeness that exists beyond the pain, we have a reason to keep trying.

This is why I’ve created Showing Up (in Sweatpants), a group coaching program and course that helps us connect with each other and with ourselves, offer encouragement, accountability, strategies and collective wisdom to start to show up for our lives, even in baby steps, even imperfectly, even in sweatpants.

We have a few more slots available for our first pilot cohort, which begins this Sunday. I would be absolutely honored for you to join.

Check out the link in bio for more information.

Lots of love, Emily

10/29/2025

The world feels very heavy and like many of you, it’s been so. painful. to navigate. For me, it’s felt like a constant flip flop between utter overwhelm and pretending I’m in another parallel universe. 🫠

As we face this latest act of structural violence with the loss of SNAP benefits for millions, there’s been a lot of talk about how deserving people who work & have full time jobs rely SNAP for survival.

This is a devastating circumstance. And, may we also remember those of us who cannot work- for health reasons, bc jobs are scarce, and for a number of other reasons. Like many of you, I’ve been there many times when my mental health got really rough.

*Anyone* regardless of employment status or productivity, is WORTHY, IMPORTANT, and DESERVING of their fundamental needs to be met. You, just as you are, add color and richness to our world simply by being in it. Job or no job.

Sending warmth and bravery to you 💜

CFD

04/25/2025

✨DID YOU KNOW we do workshops??✨
We work with partners to develop custom workshops for their community’s unique needs. Previous clients include businesses, schools and psychiatric recovery programs.

Past topics include:
- ❤️‍🩹 sharing firsthand stories of mental health recovery
- 🧭 discussing values and aligning actions with values
- 👝creating distress kits & wellbeing zines
- 🗺️ changing career directions
- 🚥 creating goals and routines that align with bandwidth and values
- 📝 planning for caring for wellbeing during low capacity periods
- 🪷connecting with hope when it’s hard to find
- 🧘caring for the whole self (basic needs, belonging, purpose, self-determination) when living with persistent mental health challenges.

➡️DM or email info@cerealfordinner.org for more info!

03/03/2025

Ok I’ll be real, Sunday Scaries have looked more like Everyday Scaries for a quite a bit now. But today, boy was I NOT feeling hungry and or wanting to put in any effort into making a meal. Just had that crawling out of your skin, fire in the pit of your stomach feeling. A pleasant, gentle Sunday evening as always 🫠

Anyway. Here’s what I did. I acknowledged that I was feeling fear and sadness (and just tired all around) and that was limiting my bandwidth for making a meal. And that that was OK. Check 1 complete. Then I checked out the recipes section of the new site, which is completely redone and honestly I think I might be attracted to it (that a thing?). But it just actually is pretty helpful when you’re feeling stuck. Picked out a recipe that was doable for where I was at, and I was off to the races. Check 2 complete.

I’m PSYCHED for you guys to take a look at this new site. It took forever because we thought a LOT about it, and gave it a lot of love (as well as lots of sweat and tears).

Stay tuned! ;)

01/03/2025

Anyone who’s been through a Really, Really Rough Time with their mental health knows what it’s like to finally begin to breathe out with just a little more ease, lower your shoulders so they’re not *as* glued to your ears, and wake up to a day with a bit more brightness and a little less dread. You feel as if you’ve been doing some kind of twisted ultra marathon for the past X amount of time, and here you are, perhaps shaken, exhausted, but here, two feet on the ground.

And yet, as you take your first steps into a new day, you see the world going about, business as usual. All you want is some kind of recognition for experiencing a tremendous challenge and growing from it, the way others are praised for graduating law school or climbing a big mountain. You want to shout from the rooftops, “I DID THE THING I THOUGHT I COULD NEVER DO!” “I SURVIVED!” “I AM STILL TRYING EVEN THOUGH IT’S REALLY EFFING HARD!”

More times than not, however, our milestones go unnoticed, even by ourselves. We might shy away from acknowledging our efforts because they seem too small, or that we won’t be able to sustain them. We hide ourselves from the world so they don’t see how truly screwed up we are, and we don’t have to risk more invalidation. We stay silent, tiptoeing along as if nothing ever happened.

What might it look like if this year, we give ourselves even just a moment to recognize our growth? Even if it seems too small or insignificant compared to others, how can we celebrate our efforts as we journey along our own winding paths? Just as we recognize our struggles, how about we also recognize & celebrate the ways in which we continue move toward what’s important to us.

These awards came to me as I reflected on this past year, allowing myself to reflect on struggles, and on growth. Let me know below which award(s) you’ve ‘won’ recently, or create your own. I’d love to celebrate with you :)

10/07/2024

some days we make fancy meals, some days when the sky is grey and we haven’t slept well and our heart beats uncomfortably fast, we find random foods in the depths of the freezer (score on the toaster strudel) and stick them on a plate. End result? Still fed, still nourished, still whole.

✨new website coming soon!!✨

09/21/2024

HELP US BUILD SOMETHING SPECIAL TOGETHER! Take our 5 min survey and enter to win a $100 gift card! 💰🎁 We are seeking to learn more about what your experience is like doing daily living activities and activities that are important & meaningful to you, while living w/ mental health challenges. A subject that’s just a tad close to our hearts, in case you didn’t know ;)

LINK IN BIO. WINNER CHOSEN ON TUES 9/24!

09/17/2024

Today a wild thing happened. I was in the bathroom and thought to myself, “I really want to deep clean this sucker today.” 😲😮A thought I’ve had like, not. many. times. So often these past few years when emotions have felt so big and my bandwidth to do life things has been so low, I’ve come to think of myself as just a gross person. Or lazy. Or all the other thoughts we have to create our very own internal middle school bully 🫣🫣

I’ve noticed though, that as I’ve been healing & doing things in service of myself more, I’ve also been cleaning more. Electively (!) 😳. Truly wild. And I think I know a reason why..

At its heart, doing those annoying chores is a way of telling ourselves that we matter. That we are important and valuable enough to spend that little extra time to wipe down the counters or make the bed in the morning 🛏️. And I think that’s one reason why doing those routine tasks is SO difficult. Because when feel ashamed of ourselves or can’t see why we’re inherently valuable (🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️), I it’s pretty damn hard to care about folding our laundry. 🧺

So, what do we do? Well, we don’t have to do anything at all. We’re whole as we are. And, if we’re open to additional possibilities, I challenge us (myself included) to do even the tiniest lil cleaning thing, knowing that by doing it, we’re telling ourselves we always have some worth & value. 💜💜 Let me know what you plan to do. :)

Head to cerealfordinner.org for news related to our new website, coming soon!!!!!!

07/06/2024

Keeping the bathroom clean doesn’t have to be totally overwhelming, even when mental health struggles are high and bandwidth is low. Here are some of our favorite products that make it easier to maintain a clean-ish bathroom with minimal effort. Remember: cleaning a space in your home is a way of reminding yourself that you. matter. That cleaning a space is an act of caring for yourself, and exploring how you can still do things even while honoring the emotional pain. Let’s do this thing, together. 💜💪 🧼🚿

Have any other ideas for cleaning the bathroom when bandwidth is low? Let us know!

P.s. These aren’t sponsored—just stuff we actually use and love. ❤️

05/22/2024

(EM): Do you ever start to feel a tinge of joy but then you’re like NOPE, because allowing joy also means letting it go? Yeah, same. I experimented with this new, wild concept of allowing joy, knowing full well it would pass to make space for other emotions. And you know what? The fall still sucked, but wow, I am so thankful for the time it was here. Those moments of feeling full and whole, feeling connected, feeling that kind of indescribable yumminess. If I can see a bright side out of many years of struggle and pain, it’s that I feel so much more grateful for those moments, however fleeting, when my bowl 🥣 feels full.

May we allow ourselves the opportunity to feel joy, even when it’s scary. May we also recognize that our emotions, wanted or unwanted, may come and go, but we remain- brave, important, and whole as we are.

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Providence, RI
02901–02912, 02918, 02919, 02940

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http://cerealfordinner.org/

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