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Smiling to Survive
I’m like my mom, in times of seriousness, I find the joke. No matter if it’s appropriate or not, I’m gonna need that smile to survive. And surviving is obviously something that I’ve found to be futile in my life over the last 10 years. I wish I could say the same for others in my family, maybe they didn’t get enough smiles…. Smiling to Survive - My life's journey after my little brother completed suicide, serves as a vessel to project my feelings and thoughts on life after loosing a sibling to suicide and the destruction death has left in my family.
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Time is making it worse...
Grief is multi dimensional and has an infinite time line. You can grieve not only a death of someone or pet, but we can grieve a...
Misty Dotson
Dec 17, 20233 min read


Freaking Grief 😔
Two years ago, the entire week was a blur and I felt as if I was watching the events that unfolded, through someone else's eyes, yet I...
Misty Dotson
Jul 24, 20232 min read


Why did you leave?
Why did you leave? Without saying goodbye. Your life truly mattered, did you forget all the reasons why? Did you feel so alone that the...
Misty Dotson
May 10, 20232 min read


🌧️ Clouded Minds 🌧️
"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Neither is talking about it. It's time to talk." This will be a series on the stigma of...
Misty Dotson
Feb 15, 20233 min read


🎶They say it's your Birthday🎶...
Awe 🤗❤️ Your first "official" baby picture! To tell the truth, you look a little irritated! Understandable, if I remember correctly, you...
Misty Dotson
Jan 17, 20232 min read


Januarys are proving to be difficult...
The holidays weren't what I was dreading, we never really celebrated them together consistently anyways but when I moved back to town in...
Misty Dotson
Jan 3, 20232 min read


I'm still "Me".... Just a different "Me".
This grief thing is hard. I know I've stated that before, but this loss, this specific type of loss with this specific person has...
Misty Dotson
Oct 31, 20224 min read


First Year as a Legacy...
"I appreciate your existence a great deal." - Vince You don't want to know how many times I've tried to start this one flipping blog...
Misty Dotson
Jul 19, 20223 min read


The Good Parts of You
No one is perfect. No one is completely good; we all have demons and skeletons in our closets. Later in your life, you allowed your...
Misty Dotson
Jun 17, 20224 min read


Family....🤷♀️
The death of our mother put a huge crack in our already small family foundation, but the suicide of our brother just ripped it apart. I...
Misty Dotson
May 5, 20223 min read


Therapy Time
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."- Carl Rogers I decided to start therapy a few...
Misty Dotson
Apr 25, 20223 min read


Trying to be bright in a world of darkness...
I've come to realize over the years and especially this past one, that certain people who were once attached to my life, have cut the...
Misty Dotson
Apr 11, 20224 min read


A Life in Chaos
Since my brother's death, I've been seeing a therapist. Along with the journaling, therapy has really helped, not just in dealing with...
Misty Dotson
Mar 27, 20223 min read


The 6th Year
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."- Abraham Lincoln It's lonely when your mom is in heaven. It's that immediate...
Misty Dotson
Mar 4, 20223 min read


“Watch and you’ll see, someday I’ll be part of your world.” – Ariel, The Little Mermaid
I've always been a sucker for Disney movies, especially some of the classics. The Little Mermaid is one of those. Ariel's desire to be...
Misty Dotson
Feb 28, 20224 min read


Happy Birthday Vince 💚
Today is your first birthday not in this world, you're forever 29. This picture is from your 26th birthday, you always stated that clowns...
Misty Dotson
Jan 16, 20221 min read


2021, I survived. 2022, I want to LIVE!
Did I mention that I am an extreme "people pleaser"? I've done this over and over and over for, I'm going to say, MY WHOLE LIFE! And the...
Misty Dotson
Jan 4, 20223 min read


Stuck inside of my own head...
Sometimes the hell our own mind keeps us in, is debilitating. And for some, just down right a death sentence. I know this is how my...
Misty Dotson
Dec 19, 20213 min read


I MISS YOU 💚
It's coming up on 5 months, 5 months you've been gone from this world. 5 months of living with an unimaginable guilt and regret that...
Misty Dotson
Dec 6, 20213 min read


Last Supper...
This was my first BIG family holiday dinner when I moved back to my home town, It was a beginning to an end that came to soon. My mom...
Misty Dotson
Nov 23, 20212 min read
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