Author: The Bellwether Life
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Confessions Of A Gold Star Sister
I walked my oldest daughter into middle school for the first time recently. That in itself is emotional, but as I walked into the school, I was transported back to my 6th-grade year. PTSD isn’t just something that can happen to soldiers, but to anyone whose been through a traumatic event. Symptoms of PTSD can…
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3 Tips For Improving Brain Fog
It’s been a little quiet here lately; life happened. I’ve been busy keeping my ship from sinking, dumping out water while it’s still spilling in. Being a wife and mom is hard enough, but adding chronic illness to the mix makes it even harder. I’m the ship with a chronic disease, and holes keep springing…
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Parenting With A Chronic Illness
Guilt: The Worst Symptom Of Chronic Illness Being a parent is hard; being a parent with a chronic illness seems impossible some days. Mom’s guilt has me all tangled up in her. This monster in my mind is swirling around with all the physical things I can’t do with my children, especially since summer has…
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The Hidden Toxins On Your Grocery List
Goodbye Toxins, Hello Nature You’re walking through the grocery store (or browsing online for pick-up items like me), you are going about your normal routine. Then you stumble into the cleaning section with the fragrance section right there and we all love our homes to smell good. So it’s easy to add all the air…
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5 Ways To Become Your Own Health Advocate
If you would have told me two years ago that I would be sitting here writing about being your own health advocate, I would have probably laughed. I doubt most people even think about this topic, I know I didn’t until I had to become one. The Beginning Of My Health Journey: What first started…
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I Guess I’m Lucky Then
As a kid I knew I always wanted to be a mother, first it was playing with baby dolls then it moved on to watching a baby story on TLC. I would often envision my future and couldn’t wait to experience the miracle of child birth. I became a mother young but, looking back now…
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The last Time
This quote stopped me immediately and I re-read it multiple times. Flashes of the “last’s” swirling through my brain like a movie reel. The last time I spoke to a loved one, the last time I picked up my youngest daughter, the last time I was normal- instead of living with chronic illness, depression, and…
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Be Mine For Longer: Women’s Heart Health
February is the month of love. Women and moms everywhere give so much love to others that we often forget to love on ourselves. Taking a shower and running errands alone, while great, isn’t self care. When we think of Women’s health most of us assume that we’ve got it covered, because we have our…
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But, You Don’t Look Sick?
My next favorite ”Get better soon!”, well meaning maybe but, that’s not how chronic illness works. I’ve seen blog posts on this topic, I’ve seen peoples thoughts on social media, and now have first-hand experience on how many judge-y assholes there are in the world. Last year before Covid turned the world upside down, I…
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My Open Heart Surgery Story
You never think it’s going to be you. Almost 2 years ago I was a pretty healthy 29 year old wife and mom of 2. Now at 30.5 I’m an open heart surgery survivor and living with an undiagnosed autoimmune disorder (tests have been done and specialist appointments made but with COVID-19 my appointments have…
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