2022 taught me so many lessons and made me grow in immeasurable ways. It was the hardest year of my life personally and the best professionally. People on social media started talking about their word for 2023 two weeks ago. A word that was going to define the new year for them. I have never
Category: My Health and Wellness Journey
2022 was the hardest year of my life in a lot of ways. It was also the best in some ways. Both are true statements. The biggest lesson this year? Both light and dark exist in life and most of the time they coexist. Some of my year I documented here. A lot I didn’t.
Many people with CP have food challenges. By challenges, I mean food texture issues. Am I immune to this CP side effect? Obviously, from the title of this post the answer is no. Thankfully my food texture aversions are mild. Watermelon, okra, oranges, and egg yolks are my biggest ones. I do have an added
The past two months have triggered my trauma in many ways. I thought I had dealt with some of the trauma that’s come to the surface already. Turns out, dealing with trauma and unpacking it is a process of dealing with emotional and physical response landmines. Dealing with trauma and healing from it is not
My relationship with food has always been a struggle. As I’ve said before, I was born, raised, and still live in Georgia, USA. In the south, we celebrate and comfort with unhealthy food. Those foods taste fantastic! I feel guilty eating those foods. That sentence makes me roll my eyes at myself as I type
If you have read this blog regularly, you are aware the last few months have been very difficult for my family and I. Such circumstances are not conducive to taking care of myself well. It is much too easy to try to take care of everybody else and not myself. Last week I started not
I am working on being more comfortable and more vulnerable around the people who love me. My default is to say I am OK when I am not. I do not want to burden anybody with my problems because life is hard for everybody. what I am learning is that by being vulnerable with the
I haven’t written on this topic in a while because I had no updates to share. I do now. The last several months have been difficult for my immediate family. We have had to deal with lots of medical issues (not me I’m fine). Those bring with them stress and an ease of slipping into
First today is an author’s note I plan to write one blog post a week this coming week and next because I want to work less over Christmas and New Year’s. Spending more time with those I love is important to me over the next two weeks. Thanks to you all for understanding. Twice a
I had a rough day last week. I order most of my clothes and shoes online because most stores don’t have accessible dressing rooms. My new jeans arrived. I ordered more jeans like my favorite pair…or so I thought. Opening the package, I realized they were the wrong jeans. I tried them on anyway. They