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This isn’t where I thought I’d find myself. My life is wonderful and hard, beautiful and ugly. Married to the most wonderful man who loves me and cares for me. Un-diagnosed illness wreaking havoc on my body. A little house and cat I love to pieces. Wanting to have our *own* house and a yard…
It’s been a year since I opened up this website. Since I opened up a document to write a post.I don’t really know how to “explain” why I’ve been gone except there has been a lot going on in my life. A lot of uncertainty. I call it a rollercoaster. I’ve been in pain, both…
Before I get into the main part of this post, I want to put two disclaimers out there: First, everyone’s experience with anxiety is different. Things that work for me might not work for you. All I’m trying to do is give you some ideas that might help. Second, anything I link to on Amazon…
Sitting in the back of my husband-then-boyfriend’s pickup truck, in a parking lot on the Northern California coast after a day of driving up and back down the Pacific Coast Highway, watching the sun set. His arm around my shoulders, I didn’t care that I was freezing. I’ve had many amazing memories with him over…
It has been a while since the last time I felt healthy. Even when I did feel healthy, there was always something off. My whole childhood, I would have “episodes” from time to time. I would eat a little too much, or eat something too rich, and end up feeling sick. But for the most…
If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual’s pain gained meaning was through its communication to others. ~ Diane Wood Middlebrook I have wanted to blog, to share my life, my struggles, in the hopes that it might help someone else,…
We live in a culture that constantly clamors for more, more, more. More money, more things, more information. We need the newest, the best, the most. We just have to beat the Jones’. We *need* the fastest phone, best tv, most popular shoes. Something I realized a few years ago, and keep realizing over and…