Category: Healthy Momma
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Keeping Healthcare in Business, One Co-Pay at a Time
It was 2 a.m. and Noah and I were sitting outside the emergency room at a local hospital due to severe stomach pains he was having. We were having a debate about whether we should go in, or if his pains could be a result of constipation. I must have asked him at least a…
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Activating New Muscles
“Noah, relax your chest. You are lifting your leg with your chest muscles. That is impossible for most people.” I can’t help but laugh. This is why we are here at physical therapy. My son probably uses his hamstrings to brush his teeth and his quadriceps to blink his eyes. We learned two months ago…
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Everyone Has Issues, Not Just Me
Sometimes it’s good to just sit and ground myself in the notion that everyone has issues, not just me. It’s just that we’re not really talking about our issues. Often we stumble on other people’s issues by accident. Sometimes those close to us might trust us enough to share their issues, or ask for advice…
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giving away your power
Everyone does this at one time or another. I’ve done it through some of the most difficult periods of my life and I watch people around me do it all the time. How does this phrase resonate for me? Giving away my power happens when I’ve been hurt in some way so much that I…
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get your s#*t organized, and don’t forget to enjoy the present
I hired a personal organizer a couple of months ago. I had always been led to believe that this was a luxury for the rich and famous and I needed to figure out how to clean up for myself. It’s not. Organizers are pretty reasonable. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart though. The…
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anxiety
I’ve gotten so increasingly anxious over the past couple of years that I started carrying my “fix it now” anxiety medicine with me wherever I go. In 2018, I was hospitalized twice after a bit of a breakdown due to stress and relationship issues. I was equipped with pages and pages of coping strategies and…
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Eating Healthy While Safer at Home!
Your refrigerator makes for a poor roommate when you are stuck at home 24/7. When the whole quarantine thing started, I relished getting out to the grocery store once a week; it was my one act of normalcy. Now I just don’t want to be bothered with it. I can’t use order online and pick…
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Solo Mama: Single Parent Overload
Whhhoooooaaaaa! I hit Monday night, at the end of a long weekend (Dr. King, I celebrate you AND I also celebrate sanity AND there are too many Monday holidays over the next few months), and I realized I was on the verge of losing my mind. I was anxious, irritated, and had a very short…
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Finding Love…
That’s a catchy title isn’t it? Unfortunately this post is not about a juicy romantic interest or a dashing new lover (why don’t we use the word “dashing” anymore?). 😂 No. It’s about accessing love from within yourself. Accessing love for yourself. Loving yourself. Connecting with some warm fuzzy feelings for you. See? I can’t…
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Reset
It has been more than 6 months since I last posted. At least that’s what my blog account says. It isn’t keeping tabs on dozens of post starts and scraps. Striving to find balance between the meaningful and the overshare, the dismally humorous and the downright depressing. I’ve been pretty absent in any authentic way,…
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