This Brutiful Life

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

Physical Health:I have experienced some new weird physical symptoms over the last few weeks. My main doctor and I have been in contact with each other to try to determine next steps. We both view these new symptoms as clues and more data. Emotional Health:The holiday PTO break wasn’t quite as much of a break… Read more

Physical Health:We are still in Step 1 of the tentative treatment plan: Due to the fact that my physical symptoms have been increasing over the last few months, we are moving at a very slow pace. Sometimes, increasing symptoms mean that we are moving in the right direction, and sometimes increasing symptoms mean that we… Read more

The world is a shitshow right now. It is heavy every single day with no break, so I made a list of some reminders in case you need them, too. 1) Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. So, please, curse when needed right now. Or any other time for that matter. Cursing often… Read more