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The weight/wait
Yesterday I took off to Monarch Mountain (near Salida) for a solo ski day. As I rode up the old 2 seater lifts with no safety bar, I was fascinated with the way some of the trees looked with such heavy snow weighing down their branches, causing them to bend so as not to break.…
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The Magic White Board
Sometime in July of 2020 (aka, the year of the virus), Ryan and I ordered a huge dry erase board to hang in our basement so that we would have a designated space to write out our goals together. The White Board we got is 5′ x 3 ‘ and it was around $150 from…
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Because it’s good for my soul
I spent the morning kicking off the first Monday of 2021 on a coaching call with a former client. I then caught up with my bestie in Brooklyn before I had therapy via telehealth. Basically, I was on the phone from 8am to 11:30am and by the time that was all over, I was feeling…
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The Good Things
I turned 38 years old a few weeks ago and I am a frontline healthcare worker during the COVID-19 pandemic… so let’s just say, there has been a LOT of reflection happening over here as of late. The challenges of 2020 are pretty glaringly obvious so I wanted to take some time to reflect on…
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Hamster Wheel Coping Skills
Everyday feels the same lately. Wake up. Coffee. Eat. Get dressed. Go to work. Come home. Shower. Do some chores. Eat. TV. Sleep. Repeat. It feels like I am in this body that keeps moving, keeps helping others, keeps getting things done on the to do list but that I am not actually here. For…
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The resistance…
I was a sophomore in college when Facebook launched. My college, Washington University in St. Louis, was one of the very first colleges that had access to it. Did you even remember that Facebook started off ONLY on college campuses? In fact, if you didn’t have a .edu email address, you couldn’t join. But that…
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April Showers…
I’ve gotten away from this practice and I miss it. I learned about this from one of my coaches, Jacki Carr. And I figured May is as good a time as any to bring back this monthly reflection practice that I used to do every month back in 2017. It’s time to return to the…
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I was an addict.
I had my first panic attack at 22 years old in the middle of an exam in grad school. I remember my vision got blurry, my hearing went fuzzy, I felt like someone very large was sitting on my chest, or perhaps a ton of bricks were crushing me and I couldn’t breathe! I got…
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Batman or Robin?
Since I was a little girl, I always assumed I would be a mother one day. I KNEW I wanted to get married and have a husband and I just assumed that having a baby was the next step. I think a lot of little girls think that because it’s what we are taught from…
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The moment I grew up REAL fast
I remember the moment like it was yesterday… I was 23 years old, fresh out of OT school and working at my 2nd job out of school at Zale Lipshy Hospital in Dallas on the inpatient rehab floor. The patient I am writing about was someone who’d had a stroke and was making a miraculous…
My Rocky Mountain Heart
Thoughts & Musings from an Empath
My Rocky Mountain Heart 