When I went into the hospital in September for what I knew was a panic attack and high blood pressure caused but I said panic attack, I thought the doctors wouldn’t find much else wrong with me. It turns out I was wrong. The comprehensive blood work they ran showed I was anemic. How am
Category: Self-care
As I write this, there are 34 minutes left in 2025. I will not be sad to see 2025 go. This year has been the most difficult year of my life without exaggeration. After going through all I’ve been through since June 2022 I want to make this year really count I want 2026 to
There are eight billion people in the world who are constantly reminded of our differences. I happen to think we have more in common than we do differently. At the most basic level, we all want love. Not just any love, however. Love that sees us for exactly who we are and who we
Thriving has been a struggle, as of late, but I am NEVER giving up on myself, so I want to share further changes I have made to my health and wellness journey to thrive once again. Some of these are from the post I wrote December 3, 2024. I hope what follows is helpful. 1.
I am my own worst critic. It has always been the case. When I say I am critical of myself, I mean cruelly and ruthlessly so. Bullies on social media have nothing on the way I treat myself. Why am I exacting on myself? Having cerebral palsy means people underestimate me already, so I feel
I am emotional by nature. I feel deeply and everything. My emotional nature feels like a sponge, often. If I am close to somebody, I can read their emotions and doing so impacts mine. For much of my life, this caused me to be a people pleaser and lack skills required to set boundaries. I
I was born with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. My kind of cerebral palsy means I have an overabundance of muscle tone in my body. The most common symptom I deal with is tight muscles, which can, and often does, lead to muscle spasms. My general practitioner prescribes muscle relaxers for me to take as needed.
Two days ago, I woke up with multiple muscle spasms doing their best to overwhelm my body and make it impossible to breathe properly and fully. Fearful and near tears I called my parents. My dad wanted to know what I needed when he got to my apartment and saw me in obvious terrible pain.
2024 was the one of the most difficult, busy, and chaotic years of my life in a lot of ways. It was also the best in some ways. Both are true statements. The biggest lesson I keep needing to learn? Both light and dark exist in life and most of the time they coexist. Some