There is something my therapist told me that I wrote on a post-it note, stuck it to my desk, read every day, and repeat back to myself:
At the end of the day, no one will prioritize your health as much as YOU can.
To my fellow multiple sclerosis community members – let that sink in!!!
Take time and space for yourself. It’s not selfish. You need it. You deserve it.
Your health comes first. Period.
One time my sister texted me and asked me, “Do you ever just think to yourself – ‘what the fuck?’” I responded: yes. Sometimes, multiple times a day. It’s still hard for me to wrap my head around this diagnosis, this axis-tilting change to my life forever. Even in the “before times,” when I knew…
Throughout the recent Netflix series “Ripley,” characters are often confronted with stairs. In the first episode, after Tom Ripley arrives on the Amalfi Coast, he makes his way to Dickie Greenleaf’s villa and soon realizes that it’s perched high on a cliff…and therefore only reachable by what seems like endless winding, narrow stairs. In the…
In the spirit of Halloween, the theme of today’s post is wearing a mask. We all have to put on a mask sometimes in our daily lives – whether it’s to get through a frustrating work meeting while maintaining professionalism or pretending to enjoy an activity to be polite. Perhaps your mask only needs to…
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Tomorrow is my 36th birthday. The past few years, I’ve been down the shore for my birthday, celebrating with family and friends. One thing I love about my birthday is that it’s in late summer – I love this time of year, because it feels peaceful – a slowing down compared to the excitement of…
My husband and I recently celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. After enjoying a delicious dinner, we looked at all the photos from our wedding and went through the awesome playlist made by our DJ. Listening to these songs and conjuring up the moment they were played, I thought about how lucky I am to have…