This Brutiful Life

I have never really been stuck on the “Why me?” part of this health journey. Yes, there are times when I ask myself the question, but I don’t spend too much time on it. More often than not, I ask myself, “Why not me?” I am just a regular person, and there are a lot… Read more

For many years, my husband and I were told by ignorant and abusive medical professionals, as well as some uninformed family members and acquaintances, that my health situation was all in my head and/or caused by mental health issues. And, I can say now with absolute certainty that not being believed by various people in… Read more

Physical Health:The good news is that I went 11 days without needing to rest in the middle of the day. It felt like a gift and a huge step in the right direction. The bad news is that my body had a hard physical crash last Thursday after those 11 days. I was dizzy, nauseated,… Read more

In my Team Sport blog post 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 and… 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