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Anxiety has had awful PR for nearly all of human existence. It’s viewed as this horrible thing that we need to eradicate in order to live our best lives. That’s not what it is. Yes, it can [...]

Last week, I said to my friend,  “Just like someone who studies Freud thinks that everything boils down to sex, I think that everything boils down to anxiety.” Since I started learning about [...]

We promised that we’d slow down. Remember? We vowed that we would no longer over-schedule ourselves. We swore that we no longer glamorize being busy. We posted and shared memes about how when [...]

*Spoiler Alert! It’s NOT.* It appears that the subject of mental health is something else that can divide us in 2021. Yaaaay! One more thing!!! As I listen to and read all of the hot takes [...]

It’s hard to believe, (Especially here in Arizona where we’re still averaging about 105 degrees), but a new school year is on the horizon. Some of our kiddos have already started! The first day [...]

This is Leroy, my 7-year old orange tabby. We rescued each other after I decided that my other kitten, Omar, needed a buddy. Since he moved into my home, he’s grown from an absurdly adorable and [...]

The process of writing blog posts can be varied, but for me, it typically begins with a topic that Katy and Laura bring up that resonates with me. If I’m having a little trouble getting [...]

Recently, one of my best friends got hives at the aspect of telling someone no. Red, itchy, blotchy hives.  What did she turn down, you ask? Was it organ donation or a marriage proposal? Clearly, [...]

We live in a world where ‘multi-tasking’ is held in the highest regard. We sit in front of screens for hours each day. We regale each other with stories of how many different things [...]

I have always been a bad sleeper. Notoriously bad. So much so that when I moved back home after college, my mom referred to me as “in-house security” because I seemed to be up all hours of the [...]