Tag: Health
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My Complicated Mental Health
My mental health is very complicated. I have a LONG history of struggle. Not just a little bit of struggle. Severe struggle. Trauma, hospitalization (multiple times), not being able to keep a full time job, severe anxiety with major physical symptoms, rehab/alcoholism, and on and on. It has been hard to even determine what my…
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“Cease Striving” + Simplifying & Letting Go Even More
I had an appointment with my psychiatric nurse practitioner/therapist today which was so helpful. I’ve struggled off and on all summer. I will feel better, then the anxiety and depression will hit out of nowhere. Life is so good right now. I feel like I’ve hit a “sweet spot” through the decisions that I’ve made…
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Mental Health Growth & Healing: What Have I Learned?
I have been on a mental health healing journey for YEARS. It has been VERY up and down (as I’ve shared a million times). I haven’t had mild mental illness. I have been inpatient and outpatient in mental health hospitals, developed alcoholism, have been in rehab, haven’t been able to keep a long-term full-time job,…
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I’m Okay
I have been struggling so much the past several weeks. When this happens, I begin feeling a bit panicked because of my past. If you know anything about me… you know that I had YEARS of extreme mental health struggle. I have been doing SO well since about late February/early March. I tend to do…
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4 Mile Race and General Wellness
Challenge and Joy My brain has been struggling a bit more lately, but I will always have days and weeks of anxiety (and sometimes depression). It’s just how my brain is. But I KNOW how to take care of myself now. I haven’t been working out as much or eating quite as well lately, but…
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What I’ve Been Up To
I have been so busy in all the good ways. I have had much more focus the past couple of weeks. I’ve done a lot of work on our yard (front and back), but we still have SO much work to do. I’m here for it, though! Building Up My Homestead (since we moved) I…
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Upcoming Plans and Prep
I was looking through some old pictures the other day, and I realized that I missed doing some things that brought me joy! Now that we are more settled into Colorado, I’m feeling like I can start doing some things that I used to do… NOT because I feel like I have to, but because…
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Truly Living Wild and Free and What that Really Means for Me
We are currently in the car, driving from one place in Texas to the next place that we are visiting. We will be in the car a lot while we are here, but I’m enjoying my time! For the past many days, I have had a long anxiety about this trip. No reason, really, except…
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Simple & Balanced Nutrition
Nutrition has been a really hard thing for me to get consistent with over the years. This year, I have finally gotten into a good place with it! What has made with consistency with nutrition so difficult for me over the years? What have I learned? What has changed? What resources have I used to…
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Learning to Focus on What Matters- Just Showing Up
This morning, I woke up to a message from a friend. She sent me a post from one of her running friends, and it was honestly life changing. It wasn’t necessarily anything new, but for some reason, it hit different. I had been thinking about not focusing on races for a bit because I was…
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