Welcome to the seventh day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Boundaries. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for Friday’s topic, Vulnerability. There’s a reason I keep bringing Boundaries back as a prompt for the Love Blog Challenge. It’s a popular… [Read More]
The Value of Self-Care: Lessons from a Chronic Illness
Welcome to the seventh day of the 2018 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Wellness. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Dating. I’ve written extensively about my experiences with Crohn’s Disease. I’ve also published multiple posts on self-care, including a guest… [Read More]
How to Look Put Together // 13 Women Share Their Secrets
Do I spend too much time on reddit? Yes, the answer is sadly yes. But I do learn so much from redditors around the world, like easy ways to look put together. A recent thread in AskWomen garnered over 400 responses on how to look put together. The original question asked: How do some women… [Read More]
Self-Care is Radical AF (Guest Post by Yvonne)
I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving weekend! Dan and I are visiting Versailles today, and Sunday we’ll celebrate Thanksgiving with my expat cousins. Today fellow blogger Yvonne Cruz shares her thoughts on self-care! Yvonne is a freelance writer, designer, blogger, wannabe Muay Thai fighter based out of Fort Worth. You can follow her… [Read More]
On Taking Calculated Risks with a Chronic Illness
Thursday Last Thursday started off perfectly normal. I woke up. Did my morning routine, shared my latest blog post to Facebook, and ate breakfast while watching Netflix. I worked a bit. Analyzed what I still needed to clean for my dad’s visit. Ate lunch. Worked some more. And then the bloating started. When you have… [Read More]
I Don’t Put My Husband’s Needs Above My Own
Recently two women, both of whom I admire, politely disagreed with each other in the comments of something I had posted to Facebook. By the time I noticed the discussion, it had been over for several hours, and I didn’t feel like starting it up again. If I had, this is what I would have… [Read More]