Tag: mental-health
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Chasing Nirvana
No booth? No problem. Navigating the waves on the Coho with my laptop on my knees and a story that’s been waiting years to be told. Today’s dispatch: Chasing Nirvana. It’s about the “math of life” not adding up, the heat of the desert, and the whisper that changed everything.
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Finding Joy in the Inches
Part 3: The Peace Treaty September 2012: I found myself a widow at forty years old. When something this unexpected happens—leaving a gaping void in the daily existence you once knew—there is no standard playbook for moving forward. My previous ten years had been a focus on raising three children, completing my education, and establishing…
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IBS – Getting my shit straight, literally and figuratively
The aforementioned ambulance ride from a McDonald’s restroom in Belfair to the ER in Silverdale culminated in a very unyielding, very humbling diagnosis: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). An IBS flare is one of the most leveling experiences a person can endure. The intestinal pain can send you to your knees. As someone who has gone…
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“Quitter”
The sirens on the way to Silverdale were a screaming reminder that the math just wasn’t adding up anymore. For eleven years, I’d been calculating my life in “years to retirement,” like a prisoner marking days on a cell wall. But while my brain was focused on that 20-year “sweet spot,” my body had started…
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Capital D – Done
So I hear that “old school” Mommy blogs may be having a come back. Far be it from me to miss out on a passing fad, so here we are. My first blog post. I have been a writer from the time I could put pencil to paper and craft sentences. I have always loved…