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August Review & September Intentions…
Thank you to my sweet friend, local goal coach and all-around awesome human, Jacki Carr Hynes, for giving me the following format to reflect on the past month and my intentions and goals for the month ahead. That being said, here is August in a nutshell… The two things I am celebrating the most from…
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And then the fog cleared…
It’s a weird space to live in…the in between. Married life in between having children and NOT having children. And if I am being totally honest, the amount of mental chatter that swirls around in my ever churning mind on this very issue is quite astounding. For many years, I have felt this deep need…
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Yin and Yang
As we are nearing Mother’s Day tomorrow…I have been reflecting on what that means to be a mother and whether I am considered a mother or not. Are you a mother when you have carried a baby inside of you? Or are you only a mother if you get to hold that baby in your…
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Go for it.
It always fascinates me when people talk about their dreams and life goals with the emphasis on “When I retire, I’m gonna…” Hmmm…. That’s making a lot of assumptions in my book. The biggest assumption being that you WILL live until you retire someday. Perhaps this is my perspective because I’ve worked in hospitals for…
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Just Be There.
Not that I’m an expert on the topic of miscarriage but seeing as I have experienced it, I thought I would share some of the things I have learned from both my experience and the women who reached out to me during my time of loss and grieving. I want to reiterate that pregnancy and…
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To everything – turn, turn, turn…
On January 28th, my Uncle went to the ER with shortness of breath. On Friday, March 18th, he passed away. He thought he had pneumonia…which I am ironically just getting over myself. As it turned out, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma – which was likely caused by his radiation treatments 28 years prior for Hodgkin’s.…
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Surrender
As I lay in bed last night, after day 6 of battling the flu, I felt so defeated. Exhausted. Truly hopeless. Which in reality is so silly because the flu is not going to kill me, right? But in THAT moment of hacking and wheezing, it FELT like it was going to. It felt like…
My Rocky Mountain Heart
Thoughts & Musings from an Empath
My Rocky Mountain Heart 