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How I Pray

A couple of years ago, I was listening to an episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast where Elizabeth Gilbert was the guest. Now, I...

A Letter To Myself For My Birthday

Dear Me; Happy Birthday. It has come to my attention that you have some thoughts swirling around your head that aren't quite true. Let's...

Soon You'll Get Better

To keep my runs interesting, something I have been doing is listening to Taylor Swift's entire discography, start to finish. I like doing...

Shining A Light on PMDD

Fun fact about me: I used to host a podcast called Shine A Light. The idea was to shine a light on things that we don't often talk about....

Post Event Social Anxiety

I was always a shy kid, in family videos you can see me hiding behind my parents to avoid talking to other adults. I never raised my hand...

Different Perspectives

It's time to share the biggest lesson I learned in May. This is probably going to be a super short blog, because I am struggling to...

50 States

Around 2019, Tom and I decided we wanted to visit a new state every year. I got the idea from a coworker. She was in my cube talking...

World Maternal Mental Health Day

When people ask me about my days of having a newborn, I say I don't remember them. But the truth is, I don't WANT to remember them. I...

Two Things Can Be True

The lesson I learned in April was one I have been learning and relearning for so damn long....and it is : Two things can be true. It's a...

Remembering Mandisa

Around 5:30 this morning, I got a text from a friend telling me that Mandisa had passed away. My entire body went numb, and I felt sick...

How I've Learned to Live with Anxiety

There is a story about my childhood that I tell when I am talking about anxiety. When I was 6, I woke my parents up in the middle of the...

Lesson Learned in March

In early March I put an ask out on Instagram for writing topics. Someone had suggested "the biggest lesson you learned in...

Resurrection Happens

Growing up, Easter usually fell while my family and I were on our annual trip to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. We'd go to church at the...

Tetris

The other day I was waiting for a photo editing app to load and had to sit through an ad that looked a lot like Tetris. And I was...

How The Pandemic Changed My Life

On March 13th, 2020, we entered lockdown for the covid-19 pandemic. I have been thinking about this date a lot, and how much has changed...

Starfish

I added the book Starfish to my "To Read" list over a year ago. It's labeled "juvenile fiction", which I sometimes read because I find...

Magic Making Mom

I am not a "magic making" mom. I saw a post on Instagram a few days ago about moms who make sure their kids have magical holidays. I'm...

Dear Me, Love... Me

I sat down and imagined what my 19 year old self would ask my 36 year old self. And then I wrote back to her. Dear Future Self; I have so...

10 Years

A quick google search with the question "how long do Millennials stay at jobs" will show a plethora of articles and think pieces on this...

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