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Dis-Engaging From My Thoughts and Using Art as a Reminder

I think one of the most important lessons I’ve learned from working with Naomi Goodlet so far was this: Just because I have a thought, doesn’t mean I have to engage that thought. As much as anxiety is a physical feeling, at it’s core it is reaction to our thoughts. I’m learning that if I […]

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Shifting from “What Do I Need?” to “What Can I Do?”

Recently, I’ve been reading through a lot of my older blog posts. I’ve been focusing the most on the posts from the last year and a half when my mental health was in rapid decline. I noticed so many posts where I was questioning what I needed in my life to make it better. I […]

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A Space of Our Own

I’ve talked, briefly before about our current living situation I think. We moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois to be closer to my family during my 3rd trimester last year. We moved in with my parents until Scott could find a job. And that turned out to take 6 months, and we had no savings and […]

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