Dear Diary: It’s June 3 in what was supposed to be MY year. I started out 2020 on a positive note, thinking I was going to make serious changes to my life this year. Things were going to start working out for me and I was going to get a handle on my health issues….
Category: health
Fight The Fear
Tiptoeing around in the dark of night, every sound is amplified. Shadows take shape and seem to move out of the corner of the eye. Silence itself has a sound. Anxiety, expectation, and fear of the unknown causes an adrenaline rush. The flight or fight response has been triggered. The flight or fight response can…
Social Media and COVID-19
“Special Report: Coronavirus…” This is the way most news broadcasts begin these days. Social media is inundated with memes, articles and personal posts about the COVID-19 pandemic that has our world at a standstill. The only way to avoid hearing about it is to turn off all media and our phones and never leave our…
Surviving The Covid-19 Pandemic
Many of us started 2020 with the attitude that this was going to be “the” year. The year we would change our lives. The year we would accomplish those goals we had previously set and so far failed to achieve. The year our troubles would finally subside and life would get better. The year we…
When Fear Rules The World
March 2020. Spring is beginning to crawl in and take over for Winter. Daylight Savings Time is now in effect in the places that subscribe to it. Days are longer, the sun shows its face more frequently and the dirty gray piles of snow are slowly disappearing. So, why are we living in a world…
Boundaries? What Do I Care About Boundaries?
Anyone who has escaped the clutches of an abuser or a narcissist is completely aware of what boundaries are. It was a hard lesson to learn after leaving that ordeal, but an extremely necessary one. Perhaps even without hearing the term “boundaries” most of us already know what they are and have them in place….
Self-Care Lesson Turning 50
I looked in the mirror today, but I didn’t see anything different. There’s still salt and pepper in my bangs. My weight hasn’t changed from what it was last week. The skin tag that’s been on my neck since I was a child is still there. No new ones have appeared. This is still the…
“NO” IS A Valid Answer
“How many times do I have to tell you, the answer is ‘NO’?” “But, just listen. You aren’t listening to me.” “No, YOU aren’t listening to ME. You keep asking the same things. I keep giving you the same answer. But, you refuse to hear my answer because it isn’t what you want to hear.”…
Have YOU Ever Felt Painfully Alone?
You just lost your job, your spouse ran away with someone else, your cherished childhood pet crossed the rainbow bridge or some other deep tragedy has struck your life. Suddenly, it takes every ounce of energy you can muster to pick your head up off the pillow. No matter how much you try to talk…
Dear Diary – My Birthday Is A Big One
Dear Diary: My birthday is in a month and I’m going to be 50. It’s a big one! That’s half a century behind me. (There’s food for thought!) My life so far has been an interesting journey. The world was so different when I was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, in 1970. It was crazy,…