A Christian Feminist Lifestyle Blog
With everything going on in my life, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Luckily I have a guest post to share with y’all today on a topic near and dear to my heart: hormonal contraception. When I was 24, my menstrual cramps became intolerable. I spent an entire day bedridden from pain during each menstrual… [Read More]
Well. July didn’t exactly go as planned. Or rather, the hopes for productivity didn’t totally happen. As anticipated, I was depressed. (Still am). Add in a slew of Crohn’s problems, and you have me not doing much for a month. But I accomplished my biggest goal–I launched a new website to promote my mom’s book!… [Read More]
Thursday of last week marked two years since my mother died. Two years without my mom. It just doesn’t seem real. Part of me is still in denial, two years after my mother’s death. How could someone so vibrant and loving and precious not be alive? Coming to terms with grief isn’t about “moving on.”… [Read More]
Tomorrow we celebrate a great day in history… The day Belle Brita launched. Yes, my first-ever blog post here was on July 4, 2014. If I could do it over again, I would not have my first blog post be on a holiday. Hence why I’m blogging about my 3rd blogiversary a day early. Related:… [Read More]
Earlier this month, I celebrated my 30th birthday! In fact, the celebration continues today as the last day of my birthday month. I created my 30 Before 30 list shortly after my mother died. At the time, I was still in this weird limbo of grief, a combination of numbness and denial. I was both… [Read More]
Dan and I recently continued our world tour of Disney parks with a Saturday split between the original Disneyland and California Adventure. For those of you keeping track at home, in less than a year we’ve visited EPCOT and Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios in Paris, and now the two parks… [Read More]
