This Brutiful Life

In my Team Sport blog post from last week, I mentioned the trauma that my husband and I have experienced due to our support system looking vastly different than the support system we thought we would have during this time. We regularly have to adjust to the capacity and skill set of our family members… Read more

Life has been extra heavy lately. We all know how heavy the world has been, but there has also been extreme heaviness in our little part of the world. A loved one in our extended family is battling a diagnosis that has a gloomy prognosis. On top of that, my husband and I have been… Read more

In my Intergenerational Trauma post last week, I wrote about my work as a high school Gifted Education teacher. I spent a majority of my time in that role working with individual students and their families, so I had a unique lens through which to view family systems. I have been asked many times over… Read more

The topic of mental health has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. I spent most of my time as a high school Gifted Education teacher working with individual students and their families, and emotional/mental health was one area of emphasis. I had approximately 90 meetings with individual students and… Read more

In my Anything Is Possible post from October 2024, I discussed the importance of being open to suggestions, recommendations, and constructive feedback, but only from people who are sitting in the trenches with us — my medical team, our mental health provider, and our inner circle of trusted truth tellers who are active participants in… Read more

My husband and I recently updated our end-of-life paperwork. We both strongly believe in not leaving a pile of shit for someone else to clean up when we pass away. We originally completed the legal paperwork in 2010 after experiencing the trauma of my father-in-law passing away suddenly and unexpectedly, but we needed to update… Read more