Category: community
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Smiling Sympathy
Grief is a part of life. We never fully heal from it, we just learn to live alongside it, in harmony. We must respect it’s power to induce tears. My recommendation – smile and hug the grieving! But resist the sweet, sympathetic tones please. There’s dopamine in it for you.
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We all see the elephant, right?
In April of 2020, this awful dooming feeling wouldn’t go away. It was with me all the time, weighing like a dynamite packed vest. This wasn’t normal, healthy or in any way good for humanity. Locked down, our leaders were getting power drunk and closing businesses and forcing people into their homes. “Home” isn’t always…
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Wilderness Connection
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat,” Laura Ingalls Wilder Humans spend an extraordinary amount of time indoors, despite being innately, intrinsically linked to the great outdoors. Millions have learned to thrive in urban environments, though I can’t imagine how. It turns out, research studies tend to agree. Study after…
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It’s Not Our Fault
I want to ask some questions and I might add a little ‘healthcare’ rant so it doesn’t hurt my feelings if you read no further, but I feel compelled to be more vocal about what is wrong with ‘medicine’ today. Nope, I’m not a doctor. Just like we aren’t all epidemiologists or biologists but we…
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Those Three Words
A racially divisive event in the summer of 2020 immortalized three words . . . I can’t breathe. Those three words probably broke an already aching city. They put deep wounds in the hearts of others. The same three words became a symbol for fear, despair and everything wrong with humanity. For entirely different reasons,…
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MTHFR – It’s not what you think
In the summer of 2017 I was sitting around a campfire with all the best girlfriends a girl could ask for. We started sharing some huge dreams. You know, those ones that you have passion for and are getting educated in, but don’t feel you can quit your day job to do! Mine was simple,…
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Ms. Maisy Grace
Camper renovation project became a little emotional rollercoaster before it was through. But it was finished just in time for a weeklong local camp! Well, glamp in my pretty new girl.
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The Devil Don’t Fight Fair
Yesterday, I posted just a meme on my facebook feed without additional words or explanation. I meant for it to be simple and stand on its own, but when someone took a little jab at not being sure what my very serious post means, I decided to add some context even though I told them…
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Healthcare is a misnomer
Modern day healthcare is more profit than prevention. We need to reverse that trend, collectively.
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Fasting facebook…
Fasting facebook salvaged a little of my sanity. Read about how I fasted social media for a couple of weeks and gained a better perspective.
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