Tag: Life Lessons
Finding a Way to Overcome Hard Things | Weight Check #2
Life lesson to overcome hard things. Challenges can be emotional or physical. We tell ourselves stories that may or not be true. Modify your story, your physical or emotional circumstance to overcome. Weight journey.
How Can I Best Help You?
I just got back from an amazing blogging conference called Activate. It is run my Ruth Soukup’s and her amazing team at Elite Blog Academy/Living Well Spending Less. I got clarity on what I want to achieve here and how I want to move forward. […]
How to Escape a Metaphorical Riptide
Last week I woke up with a start with all of the things I had to do running through my brain. I was feeling overwhelmed and wrote about how I cope with all the stress in the midst of overwhelm. Lately it feels like I’ve […]
When You’re Having One Of Those Days (or weeks, or months,etc)
They say tragedy plus time equals humor. They also say that laughter is the best medicine. I’ve also heard more than one motivational speaker suggest each of us look for humor in a situation. We need the humor-especially when we’re having one of those days. […]
Concussions Are Not Fun
Not to state the obvious, but it’s true. I’m inserting this post more than a week after my car accident to explain my lack of content. Short version is the guy behind me on the interstate slammed into my car when he was going too […]
Epic Mom Fail
Today: This is hard. Really hard. I’ve been hanging on to this post for a week. I’m frankly scared to post this because, while I’m not exactly a people pleaser (you can’t please everyone all of the time, nor should you try to), I do […]
Misunderstandings
It’s taken me a long while to write about this because of how sensitive the feelings of those involved are. Let’s first visit the day we found out that not only was Acroboy on the Autism spectrum, but that he has ADHD as well. I […]
Clone wars (and Pete the Cat)
Yep, I got the title in part from Star Wars. My kids are Star Wars fans, and so am I. It seems appropriate though because there are many days I look around my house and I wish that I could clone myself. Those days it […]
Sprinting vs. Marathons: Living in a World of Quick Fixes with Long-term Challenges
It seems to me we are a society of quick fixes. Everywhere you turn in media there are ads for countless medical pills. There are pills and drugs and creams, for dry mouth, dry eyes, insomnia, depression, acne, irritable bowel syndrome, restless leg syndrome, ed, […]