“If you own the story, you can write the ending. If you deny the story, the story owns you.“ Brene Brown, Rising Strong A couple of years ago I had some boudoir photos taken. I was at a place in brain injury recovery where getting dressed and to rehab was the basic extent of my life. I was living in […]
Year: 2021
Re-entry
How are you doing with “re-entry?” Are you feeling good, ready to meet the world head on, or are you feeling anxious, over-stimulated and have a need to slow-it-down? Remember the breathless, high blood pressure rat race of our previous prepandemic lives? I too remember the fast-paced, heart palpitating, nose to the grindstone hustle. That was life for years until […]
Fat Is Not a Feeling
“Fat is not a feeling.” Sit with that statement for just a moment. If you find this to be an obvious, matter of fact statement, then good for you. If you experience revelation, enlightenment, or knowing deep in your bones when you read this, you are my people. Recently, while listening to my favorite podcast, Hear to Slay hosted by […]
Fatness
I think about fatness a lot, except when I forget about it while I’m living basically my entire life and then folks or certain situations remind me. But the fatness I’ve been thinking about lately is not my own. Fat has been a personal descriptor for me my entire life. Whether I was actually fat or not; I was told […]