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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    Hormones & Fatigue: Fighting Fatigue by Understanding My Cycle

    / February 19, 2019 / 0 Comments

    In my last post, Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update), I explained what I have gone through in the last ten years regarding my health, weight loss…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update)

    / February 17, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Structuring my life and health AROUND my hormonal cycle is the only way I succeed at anything. I think I will always struggle with fatigue, anxiety, depression, weight management, and digestive issues. This doesn't…

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  • Messy Faith,  Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    How do you pursue a relationship with God when you’re exhausted?

    / July 26, 2018 / 4 Comments

    Over the last few posts in my series, Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith, I feel that I’ve done the best I can do to present theologically-sound, Scripturally-based truth about pursuing…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Life hacks for introverts: how to structure your day, week, and year

    / June 4, 2018 / 1 Comment

    As an introvert, there have been a few real “game-changers” in how I cope in a special-needs household when both my husband and son are extroverts. This is one post in a series…

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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Life Hacks for Introverts: Survival Skills for When You Just Need a Break

    / June 1, 2018 / 4 Comments

    I have decided to write a blog series about introverts, introversion, and help for those in introvert/extrovert relationships. I’ve touched on the issue many times, but my post “Honest Confessions of an Introverted…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    What quitting chiropractic taught me about myself

    / October 26, 2016 / 26 Comments

    I have a secret confession: I haven’t visited the chiropractor in over a year. Chiropractic has been a part of my life since I was about seven years old. But here’s what happened…

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  • Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Dear Formula Feeding Moms: I get it now

    / May 11, 2016 / 16 Comments

    I really hate that there are stigmas attached to both breastfeeding and formula feeding. I hate that this is a matter of contention between moms. Most of all, I hate the role I…

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  • Family,  Marriage,  Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Special Needs Parenting

    When you’re too tired to be a good wife

    / April 16, 2016 / 7 Comments

    This week was one of those weeks – the kind of week where I really was too tired to be a good wife. Little Brother was going through his sixth week of not sleeping through…

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  • Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue

    Dear tired mom whose baby won’t sleep: you’ll get through this

    / March 2, 2016 / 7 Comments

    Let me tell you a tale of two babies and one tired mom: The first baby, now five, was a horrible sleeper. He hated to be alone and needed to be rocked, nursed,…

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  • 5 New Year's Resolutions for exhausted moms (who are way too tired to make resolutions) | New Years Resolutions for Moms
    Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    New Years Resolutions For Exhausted Moms

    / December 30, 2015 / 6 Comments

    Dear tired moms, it’s that time of year when everyone around you is making resolutions for the New Year. Maybe you feel the pressure to make resolutions too. But…maybe it’s really hard to…

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