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Bio Moment – Health Anxiety, Be Gone!

This is going to be written stream-of-consciousness and without my usual attention to detail. It's not to say it will be poorly-written, just quickly and without pretence. I have found…

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My YouTube Experiment Continues – Health Anxiety and the Doctor’s Appointment

24 Nov 202013 May 2021

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Remember this one? – Overcoming Health Anxiety

3 May 20193 May 2019

I can’t talk about this book without talking about myself. I don’t have a light case or dabble in it… I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…

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Overcoming Health Anxiety – I told you I was sick

23 Jan 20189 Oct 2019

I can't talk about this book without talking about myself. I don't have a light case or dabble in it... I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…

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Health Journey (Cont.) 2022 – First Warmish Day = First walk of the season!

I knew it would be tough... seeing as I haven't walked for six months. Well, that's not exactly true as I tried walking about a month ago. It was freezing…

Photo Journal & Update on my Health Journey – Last of the Summer Blooms

The Summer of 2021 will stand out as one of the best of my life! I will never forget how I made time stand still by just GETTING OUT OF…

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And a Merry, Happy, Joyful, Loving, Sparkling, Healthy, Healing Christmas Eve to YOU!

24 Dec 202024 Dec 2020

Snow's-a-comin' this way!! Can I get a whoop-whoop? The holidays have been difficult for me since moving to Canada (read: stomach-tugging, family-missing-difficult). I've never been able to spend it with…

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Anxiety, Phobias, & Panic – A billion trillion +1

9 Jul 20199 Oct 2019

Anxiety, Phobias, & Panic by Reneau Z. Peurifoy, MA, MFT, is the book that other books about the subject would recommend. "Don't bother with me," they'd say. "It's the perfect…

Photo Journal – Oh, the places we’ve been!

14 May 20229 Jun 2022

Mom and I had a fantabulous week! The plane ride to and from was okay, too... but getting to the tarmac on time proved to be a pain in the…

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Runes – Another neat thing to toss into your self-help kit

14 Apr 202214 Apr 2022

I haven’t had Runes - actual Runes - until recently, though I did have rune(s) cards (thanks to Mom!). I liked the cards a lot but always wanted an actual…

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Fear does not prevent death it prevents life – Author unknown but I could have said it myself

13 Apr 20224 May 2022

As I drove into the driveway last night after work, I looked up and saw my headlights illuminating a vine-y heart. I pulled out my phone and snapped this shot.…

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Bio Moment – Spring Cleaning

9 Apr 202210 Apr 2022

I have a lot to tell you today! First of all, I want to apologize for the vagueness of something I said in a post last week. (Link here -…

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The Mindful Way Through Depression – This Navel Gazer Approves

29 Mar 202229 Mar 2022

Mindfulness = To "Pay attention on purpose." -pg. 47 I have to say something first. *ahem* The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon…

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X-Rays Show More Than Expected – All About That Base

With apologies to Meagan Trainor (and her VERY catchy and ear-worm-y song, All About That Bass), I'm actually talking about another base. As you know, I had x-rays after a…

Bio Moment – X-Rays, Apples & A Lonely Ball

11 Feb 202211 Feb 2022

After my nasty fall on Sunday evening (details HERE) I was trying to heal on my own. The reasons are many but boil down to about one or two: I…

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Bio Moment – The Storm of January, 2022

17 Jan 202217 Jan 2022

It’s been a while since we’ve gotten the kind of snow that stops the world from spinning. The cars that try to get on the road? They’re spinning! The internet?…

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The Shift – Part 1 – His life’s meaning

3 Nov 20214 Nov 2021

I've mentioned the late Dr. Wayne Dyer more than once. In fact, the first time I mentioned him just happens to be in my very first post for this blog!…

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Love, Medicine & Miracles – What took so long?

19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021

"People need to know they have an option. You can focus living in the present moment, or you can get wrapped up in the horrors of the future and let…

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Mind to Matter – It all begins with a thought…

26 Aug 202115 Sep 2021

I'm going to tell you a few things right up front... This is a Mom's PickThis will take a commitment of at least a week (or in my case, a…

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What’s Your Poo Telling You? – Funny you should ask!

23 Jul 202129 Jul 2021

Let's get a few jokes out of the way first: Wanna hear a poop joke?Nah, they always stink. What did one piece of toilet paper say to another?“I’m feeling really…

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YOU The Owner’s Manual – Prescription: Take the next 371 pages and call them in the morning

12 Jul 202112 Jul 2021

"Welcome to your body. Why don't you come on in and take a look around?" - Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. It will surprise you -…

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Walking as self-help! – Perfect timing!

7 Jun 20213 Jul 2021

You guys! Today, I went for the first walk of what I hope will be many! I’m starting slow and let me tell you why... Several months ago my doctor…

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Bio Moment – Reflections on a Monday afternoon

3 May 20213 May 2021

For anyone else, today would just simply be... another day. For me? Not so much. It begins with a small gathering of medical appointments. Today, blood test. Wednesday, Covid vaccine…

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Easy like Sunday – pERfectiON Not REquirED

14 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

April 14, 2021 Today's reblog is a post about my perfectionism and myriad meds. Fitting. See, yesterday, after six months of being off, I decided to go back on my…

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Bio Moment – Doing it afraid

7 Apr 20217 Apr 2021

April 7, 2021 Up for reblogging today is a post about my health anxiety and my asthma and my this and my that because CLEARLY I am the most important…

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Bio Moment – The Bandaid

31 Mar 20211 Apr 2021

Last night, as we got into bed, I took a heavy quilt off my side of the bed and tossed it aside. It had been my second attempt at using…

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Breath – Confession: It was torture

18 Mar 202115 Sep 2021

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. - From the inside…

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Remember this one? – When a Parent is Depressed

5 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

In the interest of honesty, I almost didn’t write today. I did a “Remember this one?” post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again… into the spiral…

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Remember this one?* – Ordinarily Well

Ordinarily Well by Peter D. Kramer is about antidepressants. More to the point, it is about if they work. Kramer is not merely a bystander… he is a psychiatrist and scholar.…

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Your Body Believes Every Word You Say – One of the truest titles, ever!

Reading Your Body Believes Every Word You Say by the late Barbara Hoberman Levine (2014) wasn't easy. After all, I suffer, as you know, from health anxiety. <<< Link to…

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Remember this one?* – Moody Bitches

14 Oct 202012 Jul 2022

“Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren’t developing cures; they’re creating customers.” ― Julie Holland Moody…

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Remember this one?* – This is Me

"Honeybees are meaningful to me because technically they’re not supposed to be able to fly. We know they do, but in the 1930s, French scientists ‘proved’ they couldn’t. Their reasoning…

Picture of the Day – In search of breath & flowers

I am sure I'm not alone in saying I hate Covid-19. I hate that a whole spring and summer was spent inside and that we finally went to the mall…

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Remember this one?* – Always Looking Up

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.” ― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist How can you not love…

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Remember this one? – One of my favorite posts of all time! The Apothecary Museum

16 Jun 202016 Jun 2020

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We’d get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family-style restaurant that’s long-since closed) and…

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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Apropos

3 Apr 20203 Apr 2020

“Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in…

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Remember this one? – Will I Ever Be Good Enough?

12 Feb 202012 Feb 2020

Do I notice the irony of the subtitle on this blog post? Why yes, yes I do. It's taken me a long time to write about Will I Ever Be Good…

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Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…

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Easy like Sunday – Nana & Bappa’s Legacy

2 Feb 202012 Aug 2020

My friends and readers, Thanks so much for being patient with me during the transition from laze-about blogger to full-time employee with a blog side-hustle. Sixty may be the new…

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Remember this one? – The Girl on the Train

25 Sep 201925 Sep 2019

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is kinda/sorta like the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Not in their storyline… but in the way, they are told. See, they both…

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Easy like Sunday – Some stuff I noticed this week

18 Aug 201912 Aug 2020

It's been a while since we've had a little sit-down chat... so here I am... sitting. :) Grab a cuppa and join me, won't you? If April showers bring May…

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