TW (Trigger Warning): Mentions of suicide World Teen Mental Wellness Day is observed across the globe on March 2 every year. It is a day that aims to raise awareness about the mental health issues that teenagers deal with. This Day is about making efforts to educate everyone and destigmatize something that is becoming increasingly … Continue reading World Teen Mental Wellness Day
Category: Health
March is National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
Hi, my name is Evie and I have essential tremors. I am part of the 5% of people age(s) 40 to 60 to have ET. March is National Essential Tremor Awareness Month - a time to shine a light on Essential tremor and the impact it has on millions of people throughout the world. You … Continue reading March is National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
Hobbies – How To Go From Stressed To Blessed
By definition, a hobby is “an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.” I can honestly say I do not have a lot of regular hobbies. In fact, maybe you could call blogging a hobby if one were not desperately trying to make money from said blog. Blogging would be for sure my … Continue reading Hobbies – How To Go From Stressed To Blessed
Surviving The Winter
I never thought I would have to write a winter survival guide. Most of you may know by now I was raised in Texas and Louisiana where winter didn’t last for months, it lasted days or sometimes weeks. I did not know cold till I moved to the North. I remember one of the coldest … Continue reading Surviving The Winter
Changes For My Heart
I have to make changes. It is just facts. The way I take care of myself has been lacking on many fronts for some time. When I moved to MA. I was in decent shape. I had gained weight before I got here, but I had no plans to gain more. However, even though I … Continue reading Changes For My Heart
My Heart Health Story
So, it's February. It is American Heart Month so what better time to revisit my heart health story. This isn’t a healthy story nor is it a story where I say that I once was bad and now it's better. It is the story of a normal person, with normal failures and normal wins. We … Continue reading My Heart Health Story
My Journey Thus Far With Lipedema and Lymphedema
This is going to be your story - or at the least parts of this story will be similar to yours, your family members, a best friend, or a loved one. Years and years have gone by having these conditions and full well knowing that is what was wrong with me but yet no one … Continue reading My Journey Thus Far With Lipedema and Lymphedema
A Look Back on 2021
Did 2021 even happen? To some of us, 2021 was the great entry back into life from the 2020 shutdown, for others it was just an extension to 2020. For me personally not too much changed. Ok nothing changed except maybe I went easier on the boys and Jeremy about baths, hand washing, and germ … Continue reading A Look Back on 2021
New Year’s Resolutions
Boy, how did we get here? If I am truthful, I do not even remember last New years eve. I’m pretty sure that means it was not extraordinary. New Year’s Eve was only ever a big thing because of fireworks. In the south all major holidays are celebrated by poor people spending a crap ton … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions
Therapy 101
Have you ever been to group therapy? Well at the beginning of a session they make you, or rather I should say ask you, to sign or agree to a confidentiality policy where you do not discuss what goes on in the group. OH BOY… It is tragic that I can not talk about what … Continue reading Therapy 101
Finding Evie 