Category: Health
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Good Friday Coffee Thoughts
The morning sky threatens with a coming storm, the morning light losing its push against dark clouds. There’s rain on the forecast. It’s a rare Friday off of work – Good Friday – and the kids are at school until I pick them up for a noon church service; Fred will meet us there. I…
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Diagnosis: Aging
I’m leaning as far over my bathroom counter as possible, just inches from the bathroom mirror, to examine a spot on my face. What is that thing? The spot, which I originally deemed acne, is persistent…a little too persistent. As I squint at the offending blemish, it occurs to me that this has been going…
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Things I’m Overthinking This Week
I’m in this phase of life where prep work falls second to burnout and I’m equally proud of myself for putting together a snack shelf with better options and ashamed of the amount of single plastic use I’m supporting. I’m taking baby carrots from plastic wrappers and storing them in plastic containers for better visibility…
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If you love me, let me sleep.
Close the curtains on the summer chorus. Close down the house and turn up the air. Turn down the bed. Slip into comfortable clothes and watch the fan blades rotate lazily against the ceiling. Close your eyes. Take a deep breathe. Keep the air in your lungs. Release. Hold the exhale. Repeat. Continue slow breaths…
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The Low FODMAP Diet: Advice Welcome
Life is funny, isn’t it? You expect it to go one way and all of a sudden you realize you’re living a very different life than you expected. It’s been a week, ya’ll. In my early 20s, I was diagnosed with IBS after a particularly bad day found me on the floor of my aunt…
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Febrile Seizures and Healthy Anxiety
It’s Friday morning and the air is cool. The sun is out and the clouds are sparse. The kids are off to school and daycare for the first time in 5 weeks and my music is turned up. Thank you Walker Hayes Pandora station. I have a quarter cup of coffee left in my to-go…
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A is for Anxiety
Do you ever hold your breath doing a completely innocuous thing? Do you find your shoulders scrunched up by your ears while relaxing? Do you feel like you have a pound of bricks sitting on your chest regardless of the task at hand? Do you find yourself periodically taking really deep breaths because you don’t…
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Burnout
If you’ve lived through this past year, I’m going to go ahead and assume you’ve experienced burnout at some level. And I mean that globally, which is insane. You’re a human? You’re old enough to understand that everything changed for us a little over a year ago? Yeah, I’m talking to you. Even as vaccines…
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