Doreen Orion Blog Tour: Don’t Let The Spark Die

This Mental Health Notes post is brought to us by Doreen Orion, and is Day Two of Doreen Orion’s Queen of the Road Blog Tour:

Although I protested as long as I could, my husband and I did eventually hit the road in our bus with our two querulous cats, sixty-pound dog – and no agenda. Another important thing we learned was: Don’t let the spark die. It’s crucial to keep challenging and stretching yourself. I hadn’t realized how my life had become more than comfortable – it had become rote and routine. So along with the many adventures we had, we also had to survive many disasters (fire, flood, armed robbery, my developing a guest phobia and finding ourselves in a nudist RV park, to name just a few) that actually helped in rekindling that spark. In fact, on our very first day out, I nearly died a horrible death (not that I would have thought there was any other kind) several times.

Here’s a reenactment of one of those episodes:

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Doreen Orion is a triple-boarded psychiatrist and award-winning author. Her memoir, QUEEN OF THE ROAD: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus With a Will of Its Own will be published in June by Broadway Books. For more information, go to www.QueenoftheRoadtheBook.com.

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