I'm 32. And I just realized how competitive I can get. I mean if I can't win, I don't want to play. My family has a weekly fitbit step challenge. I have definitely watched the clock and gotten up...
I am a passionate poster on social media. Like clockwork, you can expect several updates a week about my family, local events, new finds, and books. Recently, I had a friend reach out to me who talked about how...
As a part of my online workout community, I was asked to complete a mini-challenge: Tell me 10 things you love about yourself. Simple, right?
Wrong. I stared at the blank screen and could not come up with anything. I...
Isolation feeds my depression. Inside of it, I wallow and the emptiness drags me deeper and deeper into a hole of hopelessness and sorrow.
It is in that deep, dark place of loneliness, where I lose my every will to...
I was hunkered down on my bathroom floor, numbly scrolling through my phone when I got a text from my husband. “Is everything ok?” I looked at the time and realized I’d been in there over 40 minutes. Apparently,...
Go ahead. Call me crazy, but you can only call me half crazy. That’s because I just signed up for my first half marathon.
I’m excited, nervous, and only slightly freaking out.
Training is still in the early stages but has...
My friends call me a hippie. Some have called me Earth Mother, but I say I am just crunchy-ish. Yes, I enjoy the natural life. I nursed my only child for 14 months. I baby wore and cloth diapered...
I live with chronic pain.
Six years ago, barely one month after my husband and I said “I do”, I was in a terrible car accident that occurred while I was driving home from work one evening. I took my...
Do you ever feel like you just want to opt-out?
As clear as yesterday, I remember the day my husband was diagnosed with cancer. And again, as if it were happening this very minute, I remember every detail from when...