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Overcoming and Self Care
In July of 1980 I was thirteen years old. I spend the previous school year being picked on for being chubby and having braces. The summer between seventh and eighth grade I got my braces off and went on a diet. I lost 15 pounds. My sophomore year of high school I was enrolled in…
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ME Versus Me
I went to the third annual HealthEVoices Online Advocacy conference this past weekend. I learned a lot that I want to share with you over the coming weeks. But probably the most important thing I learned is that I don’t have to be everything to everyone, all of the time. I love the advocacy work…
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Self-Care and Guilt – HealthyPlace.com Guest Post
Last Saturday I spent the afternoon making greeting cards. I’m not particularly crafty, but this is a hobby my mom got me into years ago and I enjoy the creativity of making up my own designs combined with the practicality of creating something I need anyway. I have a little spot in the basement where…
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It’s Tim’s Party But I’ll Cry If I Want To
Last week Tim had a birthday. It was a big one – 17 – that age where you’re still legally a kid even if your stature makes you appear to be a man. He’d been at my parents house for 10 days and with us all for the Independence Day holiday before that, so he…
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Ten Minutes for Mom
I called my doctor last Monday morning and got his answering machine. Most people who don’t have urgent care near them and aren’t sick enough for the emergency room wait with scrapes and sniffles and coughs over the weekend to see their primary care doctor on Monday. So I wasn’t surprised I had to leave…