Personal Growth
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Tomorrow morning, everything changes. After years of living in a body that has held me back more than it’s carried me forward, I’m finally having my hip replacement surgery. Saying that out loud still feels surreal. There’s anxiety, of course—the kind that creeps in when you think about operating rooms, recovery timelines, pain, and the… Read more
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If someone looked only at the statistics of my life, they might summarize it with a short sentence: three marriages, three divorces. Numbers are tidy that way. They flatten years of love, struggle, growth, and change into something that looks like 1 simple fact from the outside. But real relationships are not tidy. They are… Read more
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Living in a body that won’t cooperate is like slow-onset torture. For years, my hips haven’t just hurt—they’ve held me back. At first, just a little. Gradually, over the years, more and more. Simple things—bending, walking, standing, even trying to sleep—have been battles I’ve fought quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) every day. I scheduled… Read more
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I don’t like making New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight, saving money, yadda yadda, blah. It never works out, and then you start your year feeling like a failure. I do however, have some things I’d like to work on in the next year. And from where I’m sitting right now, I think it’s entirely realistic… Read more
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