This Brutiful Life

I often get asked how I keep moving forward. Well, the answer is multifaceted. I love my life (minus the complex chronic illness, of course 🤣). I love my husband. I love our life together. Right now, I am using a combination of hope, grace, and courage to keep moving forward. Recently, Kate Bowler asked… Read more

My husband and I have been Out Of Office this week. We both used PTO to take some time to try to rest and recover from the busyness of our current life. (credit: unknown) I would love to say that we have actually been resting, but that would be a lie. However, by temporarily removing… Read more

Did you pass the test on Monday? Just kidding. You were not being tested. With that being said, thank you to those of you who reached out to me on Monday to let me know that my Test post wasn’t working. That Test post was meant to be a test for me personally, but it… Read more

It has been a very busy few weeks. There have been a lot of twists and turns, and a lot of time spent in communication with various medical practitioners. I am up to my eyeballs with tasks, phone calls, and emails for managing my health situation. As my husband said last week, “It would be… Read more

I would love for someone to be able to provide me with some certainty regarding my health, but I am well aware that certainty doesn’t exist. I have to just try to make the next right decision every single minute of my day. When I get super tired of all of the uncertainty, I often… Read more

My husband and I recently started watching Showtime’s documentary series Couples Therapy, which first became a hit in 2019. The docuseries is now in its third season and follows couples for six months to 1 year of weekly treatment with psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik, a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and… Read more