This Brutiful Life

Glennon Doyle often talks about painful events in our life happening in 3 phases:  First the Pain, then the Waiting, then the Rising. The Pain phase of the most recent painful event in my life started about 6 weeks ago when I became aware that this blog was likely not fulfilling its intended purpose of… Read more

I am someone who frequently thinks about my purpose. For the last few weeks, I have been spending a considerable amount of time wrestling with the purpose of continuing this blog. My initial purpose for starting this blog was to help others feel less alone. I truly believed in sharing the messy middle of my… Read more

I made a promise to myself that I would be as open, honest, authentic, and vulnerable as I possibly could be in writing the posts for this blog, and I am going to continue to honor that promise to myself.  Here it goes . . . The last 10 days have been the most difficult… Read more

Here is the latest update . . . Physical Health:Here is a reminder of the tentative plan for healing and the parts that have been completed (click on image to make it bigger): As a reminder, we will be circling back around to Bacteria/parasites, but we have moved on to mold toxicity for now. My… Read more

Two weeks ago, I received an email from our health insurance carrier stating that there was timely news just for me and that new claims had been processed for me. I was very confused since our health insurance doesn’t cover 99.9% of my medical care costs. I knew that a claim hadn’t been filed since… Read more

The health journey I have been on for the last 20+ years has required me to trust my gut and follow the path that is right for me. And, right now is no different. I have had a few people ask me recently if I am feeling better than I did 1 year ago, and… Read more