Archive for the ‘Practicing Self Care/Well-Being’ Category
Coming to Terms With the New Fibro Mama by Jean Marie Keenan-Johnston
May 25th, 2014
In the seven years since I started battling fibromyalgia, I have to say the toughest times I've endured were finally acknowledging the loss of my teaching career, watching all my mommy friends posting on Facebook every Spring about all the playground trips they were taking, and finally admitting to myself ...
GUEST BLOG POST: 10 Ways to Become Comfortable with Chaos by Renee Peterson Trudeau
November 29th, 2013
Last week I gathered with a small group of friends in my home. They shared they’ve been feeling a sense of sadness—almost a mourning—that the world as we know it is gone. It feels as if we’re headed into a brave, new frontier and are literally creating the tools for navigating this ...
Melancholy Milestone Birthday – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
August 7th, 2013
Exactly ten years ago today, on a Wednesday, my son graced my life with his beautiful presence! Not only did he change my life forever, he was my birthday present! He was born three hours, fifteen minutes before my own birthday. My “forever birthday gift”! To make the story a bit ...
30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know – Reposted by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
July 3rd, 2013
It has been a while since I gave our readers the “Lyme Update.” Here I am, six months after being diagnosed, still taking antibiotics, when the initial prognosis was to take antibiotics for a maximum of six months. As time and bloodwork testing went on, we found that I have ...
Book Review: The Thyroid Diet Revolution – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
June 12th, 2013
I don’t think I have ever made this statement about any book I have ever read: The Thyroid Diet Revolution by Mary J. Shomon literally saved my life. Period. In fact, it saved my life to the point where I was asked to review it last summer and here it ...
GUEST BLOG POST: Finding and Building Your Tribe by Renee Peterson Trudeau, author, Nurturing the Soul of Your Family
March 29th, 2013
I’m passionate about fostering connection and creating intentional community for myself, my family, and others. I’m involved in so many groups that when I’m headed out the door to an evening or weekend gathering, my husband likes to joke, “Which women’s circle, girlfriend gathering, or retreat are you going to ...
All Kinds of Headaches—by Jamie Levine
August 6th, 2012
It’s been a pretty stressful week for me; my summer classes are wrapping up and I’ve been immersed in end-of-semester projects and annoying teacher certification tests (which are completely unrelated to speech-language pathology, but are necessary for me to pass in order to work in a school in September). Unsurprisingly, ...
How My “FitBit” Changed My Life – by Cara Potapshyn Meyers
June 20th, 2012
FitBit Pedometer On April fourteenth, I received this tiny package in the mail. In it was a tiny gizmo called a "FitBit." The "FitBit" is a multifunctional pedometer that does everything except wash your clothes! More than two months later, it has literally transformed my life. I was living in "slugdom" back ...
GUEST BLOG POST:Balancing Life and Parenting by Kira Wizner
February 5th, 2012
Being a Responsible Parent and Carving Out a Life For Yourself: It is Possible!Imagine an old-fashioned counter-weight scale coming into balance. It will dip on each side, back and forth, until you rearrange things and allow the scale to settle. Most of us feel that our family is probably the ...
Rockin’ Hormones by Robin Gorman Newman
February 11th, 2011
Can you be a rockin' later mom when your hormones are rockin'?I feel like I'm seriously being tested in that department of late.At the risk of getting overly personal, my menstrual cycle this month is seemingly never-ending. Just when I think it's stopping, it kicks in again. I've experienced this ...
