lifestyle
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“Lookin’ backwards. Might be the only way to move forward.” We are surrounded each day by messages encouraging us to move forward. If you plugged “quotes about moving forward” into a Google search I have no doubt you would get thousands of options that would pop up. All encouraging you to move forward, to not…
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It’s absolutely beautiful where I live today. Close to 70 degrees at the beginning of November. It’s one of those days that feels like a priceless treat from Mother Nature that you want to savor and not waste any part of. Normally on a day like today I would be happily hiking through my forest,…
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About a month ago I started with a new therapist due to insurance issues forcing a therapist breakup between myself and A+. Trying to replace an A+ therapist is not easy and the search was a journey. Knowing myself and knowing I have a lot feelings stored in my body that need to be felt…
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Yes, you read that right. I am back on the therapist market after my first new therapist broke up with me after our first 45 minute session. It was my shortest relationship ever. In all seriousness, the reason for the breakup was totally understandable and I appreciate her honesty. We just weren’t a fit and…
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I’ve had the pleasure of reading the book, “The Body Is A Doorway” by Sophie Strand and it has deeply resonated with me. Her raw and poignant memoir has resonated with so deeply in fact that there are times I feel like I am reading my own story. My own published and much more eloquently…
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I have written and re written this post several times. It feels like there is so much to say and yet it feels like I don’t have the words to say any of it. Yes, this is a blog about the experience of living with and hopefully thriving with chronic illness, but right now neither…
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I usually try to think of a cute or catchy title for each blog post. Something that gives you, the reader, a clue as to what the post below might contain. However, tonight there’s no cute or catchy title I can come up with. Tonight I find myself reeling and struggling with putting words together(…
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At our last session A+ therapist mentioned that we could make a collage to represent life before and life now. I immediately jumped at the idea as I had no idea we could have been doing arts and crafts this whole time instead of unpacking the debris field of grief one piece at a time.…
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Recently I’ve been obsessed with Tracy Chapman’s song “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution.” I can’t imagine why at this current season in my country I’d be obsessed with such a song, but I digress. One of the lyrics in the song is “Don’t you know. They’re talking about a revolution? It sounds like a whisper.” If…
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I had the joy of getting to spend the week with norovirus. For those of you who have had norovirus, you know what my week was like. For those of you who haven’t had norovirus, thank your lucky stars you don’t know what my week was like. You can Google norovirus, but the medical descriptions…
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