I didn’t realize I was codependent until pretty recently. Like just in the last few months. It took being divorced to discover this. In fact, I’m not sure I ever would have figured this out if I had stayed married. The first time I heard the word codependent was in reference to alcoholics. I thought […]
Self Care
What you want vs. what you need
The hardest part about being a grown up (for me anyway) is taking ownership of all aspects of self-care. Most people don’t want to do most of the things they need to do to stay healthy. I don’t want to floss my teeth or go to bed early or eat (mostly) healthy or go the […]
Setting Goals For 2023
As we approach 2023, many of us will vow to change something about our lives. We might set a goal. Something like this: I need to lose weight. I want to be more organized. I need to start exercising consistently. I want to cut back on my expenses. I need to get out of debt. […]
Small Changes, Big Results
I kicked off 2022 weighing 184 pounds. It was the heaviest I had ever been outside of pregancy. I basically ate my way through the discomfort of 2021, and I had developed some solid (and really unhealthy) eating habits in the process. I used food to numb myself, and I did a good job! 😂 […]
I’m ready to focus on sleep.
I haven’t ever had great sleep hygiene. When I was a kid it often took me a really long time to fall asleep. In my late twenties I developed some really bad issues with insomnia that eventually led to depression and hospitalization. Lying in bed trying to fall asleep and then having major anxiety about […]
When you break the chain
When you fall off track you don’t need to jump back on right where you left off like nothing ever happened. You don’t need to get back up to the same speed you were moving at immediately. Sometimes when we break the chain of doing whatever it is we’ve been trying to do consistently, we […]