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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.…

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…

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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

“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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Bio Moment – Lesson learned (the hard way, as usual!)

30 Jul 201930 Jul 2019

Be glad I'm not sharing the live video I did (and then deleted) on Facebook about this situation (that you don't know yet). I know, I know... I should have…

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Easy like Sunday – Pushing through…

28 Jul 201912 Aug 2020

It's been a rough week. I'm saying this - right off the hop - because I'm going there. So, if you're in the mood for fluffy what-nots and rainbow unicorn farts…

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Fiction as Self-Help – Turtles All The Way Down – Never has there been a more appropriate book for the Fiction as Self-Help Category!

20 Jun 201915 Sep 2021

I almost don't know where to begin. Turtles All The Way Down is by the same guy (John Green) who wrote The Fault in our Stars, which I didn't read…

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Remember this one? – I’m Looking Through You

Jennifer Finley Boylan is an amazing woman! Before picking up this audio book at the library, I’d never heard of her. I listened to it and then – by a…

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Remember this one? – Promptings

15 May 201915 May 2019

Find out who you are and then give yourself away. Kody Bateman Usually, the books I share are familiar to pretty-much everyone. But every once in a while, I find…

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Bio Moment – What Tiffany taught me today!

5 Apr 20195 Apr 2019

The photo is my dental hygienist and me, who chose to let my hair go "natural" (no straightening) on possibly the worst kind of day. It's overcast, with heavy air…

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A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 2

12 Mar 20199 Oct 2019

This (probably/obviously) follows up A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 1. The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner is an amazing book and program. That said, I have a confession... and it pains…

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The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need – Hey! That’s what I was gonna name MY book!

10 Mar 20199 Oct 2019

If you're like me, you think I've already written about this book. In fact, I haven't. We are confusing it with this "last book" I wrote about in October, 2018. The…

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Easy like Sunday – Sometimes you feel like a fraud, sometimes you don’t.

20 Jan 201912 Aug 2020

Let's talk about depression and anxiety and writing a blog about self-help. Let's talk about reading hundreds - possibly tens of hundreds - of self-help books but at times, feeling…

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Bio Moment – Storm’s a-brewin’

So, we're supposed to get a big snow storm this weekend. What's really strange is how it gets warmer, not colder... and today, the frozen water bottle in my car…

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Remember this one? – Kitchen Table Wisdom

10 Jan 201916 Jan 2019

The cover is soft, pliable… and the pages aren’t cut to straight edges. They look torn, as if from a journal or ancient book of poetry. This is something you…

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