Creamy White Chicken Crock Pot Chili
Creamy White Chicken Crock Pot Chili **Recipe Update!!** This is my most popular recipe by far, and over the years I’ve adjusted it- so instead of sending everyone on a goose chase, here’s the updated version. I’ll put additional adaptations at the end. It is truly difficult to mess upContinue Reading
Why I Decided to Have a Prophylactic Double Mastectomy
When you’re at an elevated risk for breast cancer for any number of reasons, your doctors can calculate what your individual lifetime risk level will be. They have metrics for this, and your scans, genetic testing results and family history each play a role. It was determined that my lifetimeContinue Reading
What Does It Mean to “Handle It Well?”
*This article was mostly written on 10/18/24 and found while cleaning out my emails. I say this because the perspective is from before my double mastectomy, while I was still processing my decision and soon after I had decided to share about it on social media.* In times of crisis,Continue Reading
My First Breast Biopsy Experience
As I lowered myself down onto the uncomfy frame of the MRI machine for my first-ever breast biopsy, I tried to fend off my nerves by focusing on the benign aspects of my immediate surroundings. Inches from my face was a machine-related sticker that I couldn’t quite make out, asContinue Reading
Should We Be Taking (more) Kid-Free Vacations?
Leaving kids at home in the care of someone else can bring up LOTS of different feelings. Judgment, guilt and anxiety come to mind first. My question is this: Should we, as parents, feel free to take travel opportunities, visit friends, have a break, etc., or should we own ourContinue Reading
Nutrients for Pregnancy and Postpartum Overview
It is clear that getting a variety of macronutrients and micronutrients in our diets is vitally important for our bodies to function optimally. But what exactly are those nutrients, and how to we get them? Macronutrients FAT– fatty cuts of beef, fatty fish, bacon, avocado, olive oil, coconut oil, nutsContinue Reading
Eat What Feels Good Postpartum- Online Course Description
Eat What Feels Good Postpartum is an online guide for the first 3 months after giving birth, sometimes called the fourth trimester. This is the time period when healing from pregnancy and birth is most important, as it sets the tone for hormonal health for years and years to come.Continue Reading
What being diagnosed with Adjustment Disorder feels like…
It wasn’t *exactly* what I expected, and I’m still processing it. I initially sought out insight from a team of psychologists because I was accumulating symptoms that concerned me. I noticed anxiety during my last 2 pregnancies, but after my son was born 14 months ago, I couldn’t shake theContinue Reading
BEACHES Resort, Turks & Caicos Review and Tips!
If you are interested in planning a tropical resort vacation with children, this post is for you. Of course, you can go to this resort without children, but this resort chain has the best offerings for little ones that I’ve seen! For context, at the time of this vacation IContinue Reading
Has It Been ADHD This Whole Time?
I am a grown woman person. I think of myself as generally capable and responsible, but I do get help with the REAL scary stuff like taxes and bills and dishes (Thank you, husband). In my adulthood, I have noticed that I may have tendencies towards deficits in attention. IContinue Reading