MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Mental Health

  • The kingdom of sleep

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 19, 2026 This morning on the dog walk while reminiscing about childhood, I slipped mentally into my room on the second floor of the big house I grew up in, in Seattle. At night especially, it was clear to me how empty the place felt and how far away everyone else…

  • Report from the front

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 5, 2026 A little over a year ago, I wrote in this column that I had started volunteering with a text-only crisis line, a non-profit organization I’d read an article about and sensed might be a good fit for me. I took the 30-hour training and committed to 200 hours, or…

  • Keep calm and keep moving

    Telluride Times, Thursday, January 8, 2026 At some point in his life, my father — or Lt. Colonel Dad, as I am calling him now — decided it was “unladylike” to do sports. So, right about the time it mattered most to my body, my brain, and my hormones — and under added pressure to…

  • Stillness as medicine

    Telluride Times, Thursday, December 26, 2025 “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi Remember, just a short time ago –15-20 years, say — when it was considered rude for someone to be talking on their cell phone at the grocery store? I specifically recall my own indignation when a…

  • Healthy, stealthy and wise

    Telluride Times, Thursday, December 11, 2025 “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” –Jimi Hendrix Growing up, I loved this ‘70s TV show called Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as a Shaolin mixed-race monk returned from China to track down his half-brother in the American West. (It loses a bit in the translation.) Kwai-Chang Caine’s flashbacks featured…

  • Turkey talk

    Telluride Daily Planet, e-edition, Friday, November 21, 2025 Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie Every time I see a rafter of turkeys — another word for flock, I have learned — a little gold wildlife-sighting star lands on my shoulder like a…