Category: Self-care

Awareness of Technology Usage is Important for Full, Beautiful, Life

Last year, changed me in a irrevocable ways. One of the most obvious is the change in my relationship with technology. I was not proud or happy with the way I was using technology most of last year. Asking myself what changes I needed to make so my relationship with technology was something I was

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The Journey to be our Best Comes With Important Lessons

Yesterday was one of the toughest days I have had in a while. That is saying something. Everything, seemingly, that could go wrong went wrong. Yesterday had every single, typical, response from me: frustration, tears, feeling like I was not enough/doing enough, angry at myself for feeling like any of what happened yesterday was my

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Why Letting Go is Important For Living An Intentional Life

The more I start to create a life built around intention I realize all the layers that make up an intentional life. The one I want to focus on today is letting go. Letting go can have a myriad of meanings, but I am referring to today is An internal one. I am focusing on

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Why Intention is Important in my Life for 2023

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

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How to Make 2023 the Best Year Yet

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.

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Why Overcoming Food Challenges to be Healthy and Well is Important

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

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Why Unpacking Trauma is Difficult but Important

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

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Why Being Healthy and Well Requires an Important Narrative Change

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

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Learning How to be Healthy and Well Part 7

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

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