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A+ therapist has decided that I am in my “Dating Myself” Era. Now to be fair to her she didn’t call it an era. I just love Taylor Swift and enjoy the idea of me having different era’s in my life as she does with her music. So, this summer is my “Dating Myself Era”…
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That’s the question A+ therapist pulled out of her therapy bag of tricks at our last session after we had spent most of the session talking about how this new life, this new person, this new body, don’t fit. It’s as if I’m walking around wearing someone else’s life and on the outside it looks…
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Every year on the last day of the year I create a vision board. An aesthetically pleasing patchwork of quotes, words, and pictures that represent my intentions for the new year. A vision board is a way to help one live with intention throughout the year. Unfortunately, life doesn’t always look like one’s vision board.…
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is famously quoted for saying, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” I tend to disagree with the former President. If you live long enough, you have plenty to fear besides just fear itself. Geometry, spiders, JOJO Siwa’s music, and Omaha drivers all come to mind when I think…
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The word acceptance only has ten letters in it and yet it is by far one of the hardest words for me to hear, understand, and ironically, accept. I’ve had doctors, speech therapists, occupational therapists, etc throughout my journey tell me that I had to move towards acceptance. Their advice of moving towards acceptance almost…
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If you’re a Broadway fan you finished reading that title by singing the words, “It’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to, though.” If you’re not a Broadway fan you have no idea what song the above lyrics are from, and I’ll do my best to not hold that against you. We…
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I decided to start this post off with a cheer to Anxiety. Can you imagine being at a football game and hearing such a cheer? I’m guessing there wouldn’t be whole lot of crowd participation with that one. As you already know if you’ve read my introductory posts, anxiety and I have been friends in…
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I am part of several Long Covid groups on Facebook. I joined these groups with the hope of being a part of an online community of people who understand what life is like living with Long Covid. Unfortunately, they have turned into places where people list their current symptoms and receive hundreds of comments back…
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I am one of the 10-20% or 24.2 million people who got Covid-19 and went on to develop Long Covid or Post Covid Syndrome. If you’ve met one person with Long Covid, you’ve only met one person with Long Covid. This disease presents differently in each person who has it, which is what makes it…
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In the last 21 months I have received overwhelming support and love. I have also dealt with the occasional comment, opinion, and judgment that have left me scratching my head and wondering “What would make someone say that?” I was looking at cards the other day and it got me thinking about things people have…
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