This Brutiful Life

Over the last 20+ years, I have been told numerous times that I am lucky my husband has “stuck around” for all of this. Say what now?!? I am the first to say how grateful I am to have my husband in my life. He is literally the best person I know, and I am… Read more

I feel like I am in Season 25 of my life instead of Season 5, but this image still seems true: Here is the latest update . . . Physical Health:Here is a reminder of the tentative plan for healing and the parts that have been completed: We suspended mold toxicity treatment about 3 weeks… Read more

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