Six weeks ago, I started seeing an amazing new doctor who finally diagnosed this mystery illness that has made me so sick the last two years. He has begun weekly IV treatment along with a host of other alternative therapies that are finally starting to give me my life back after two years of countless … Continue reading I Hereby Grant Myself Permission to Be Shitty
Some days everything just feels so hard. When the sleep deprivation and the toddler tantrums and the chronic illness and anxiety and all of it pile up on me all at once. Every day I get up a fighter, ready to put on my best face and go another round. And so many more days … Continue reading The Smackdowns & Getting-Back-Up-Agains: Ronda Rousey & Me
To the Mama suffering in silence...I see you. I get you. You are not alone. I know why you stay in the shadows, because you feel safer there. Because sometimes it hurts more to be misunderstood than to be alone...
It's been a hard week here. It started out with calling 911 on Sunday because the baby was choking on something she picked up off the floor. It took a visit to the ER and several panicky hours to figure out she had a small piece of thick plastic lodged in her throat that the … Continue reading The Answer to Everything Is…
I'm currently reading Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project and I'm pleasantly surprised to find that many of my "depression lessons" from my fight through postpartum depression and life, are succinctly mirrored to her monthly bids at happiness projects. While she wished she had more of a platform of hard life experiences to draw on in … Continue reading How 10 Minutes of Heaven a Day Saved Our Marriage & Our Lives
