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Blogmas 2025 Day 11: Back From The Brink
Dear readers, I am back from the brink! I started getting a mild headache yesterday before my client, around 3:30pm. On the car ride home from work, the headache progressively got worse. I hadn't eaten much during the day and certainly did not hydrate properly (bad...
Blogmas 2025 Days 9 and 10: Progress Not Perfection / Dietary Intervention
Dearest readers, Hello hello, how do you do? It's Wednesday today, and I'm so sorry for not getting yesterday's Blogmas up! Tuesdays are notoriously my heavy-duty teaching day, I started at 7:45am and ended at 7:15pm (with a few breaks here and there). What gets me...
Blogmas 2025 Day 8: Fog Is Lifting
Dearest readers, I write to you in a peppy and positive mood-- such a stark difference from yesterday's low. Not to trauma dump or belabor the point, but yesterday was rough, for many reasons. The usual suspects: seasonal affective disorder, cold weather, soft...
Blogmas 2025 Day 6 and 7: New Fitness Certification Unlocked / Coping With Depression
Dearest readers, It is Sunday, December 7, as I write to you all from the comfort of my bed. I apologize for not getting my Blogmas up yesterday, as I had a rough day and there was not a creative bone in my body as I was suffocating through the fog of depression....
Blogmas 2025 Day 5: The Blues Have Landed
The blues have landed. Repeat. The blues have landed. Dearest readers, I wish I could be writing to you from a prettier mental landscape. But it's cold and dark and stormy right now. I was feeling low in mood and lethargic most of the day-- even my dance and...
Blogmas 2025 Day 3 and 4: Happy Hump Day / Free Day Galore
BLOGMAS DAY 3 Dearest readers, Happy Wednesday, Happy Hump Day! I hope this post finds you well! Wednesday is a much lighter work day than Tuesday. I taught an 8am pilates class and had a new student, Karen, who was struggling a bit, but since she was the only one...
Blogmas 2025 Day 2: HAPPY TO BE ALIVE
HOLY MOLY we're down to the eleventh hour of Blogmas Day 2-- it's 10:07pm as I begin today's post. I have 23 minutes to crank out this post since we have a family group phone call scheduled at 10:30pm (it's about something serious, so I need to attend). Tuesdays...
Blogmas 2025 Day 1: HAPPY DECEMBER!
Dearest readers, Happy December! Can you believe we made it to the last month of the year? Hallelujah! This year has been a trying one, but it's been equally as formative. All the lessons I've learned through my challenges-- mental illness, substance use, dating...
Happy Thanksgiving 2025
Dearest readers, Happy Thanksgiving! I can't believe we are at the end of 2025! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It's a chance to tune your awareness to all the blessings in your life. No matter how rough things may be going right now, one...
Love Letter to a Stranger
Dear lover, How do you do? What should I call you? Baby? Sweetie? Honey? Or the most beloved word of all. Your name. The first of many labels forced upon you I don't know your name, not yet. I don't know what you look like, what you do, where you live, what tongues...
Poetry is a Revolution
Quote of the day: "Poetry can be taught, but it really should be lived. Tried, tested, engaged with. Let it in and allow it to change your life." (from the film, My Oxford Year). I love this quote. Poetry is singing your truth to the world. It is truth-telling in...
Chasing the Light: A Seasonal Affective Disorder Survival Guide for the Holidays
The holiday season is often painted as a time of joy, warmth, and togetherness. But for many, including myself, it can be a period shadowed by a different kind of feeling – a creeping melancholy that seems to settle in as the days grow shorter and colder. For the...