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Why I Will Continue to Support the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
For the past four days, my head has been buzzing with all the back and forth over the Susan G Komen Foundation’s (SGK) decision to pull funding from, and then give it back to, Planned Parenthood. The media circus continues to swirl, and it appears that while the initial decision to pull funding created many a foe out of former SGK supporters, there are now also people who are mad about the reversal of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness, Health, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood
Resolution: Practice What You Preach
Whenever we would boss or criticize one another, my mom used to tell my siblings and I, “practice what you preach.” It’s always been good advice. I had the opportunity to write about this concept from a mother’s perspective in an essay published in the January issue of Little Rock Family magazine. What if we, as mothers, practice what we preach more often? Well, let’s just say I have my new year’s resolutions cut out for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood, Write & Blog
Coping with Yaz Withdrawl
There are three main side effects of Yaz, Yasmin, Safyral, Beyaz, and their generic versions that myself and every other woman I’ve talked to or read forum posts from deal with: Anxiety, Nausea, and Fatigue. Unfortunately, each of these symptoms feed one another, so that after a while, it’s difficult to discern what is causing each symptom. Fatigue can cause anxiety, which causes nausea. Nausea (and therefore not eating) can cause fatigue due to lack of nutrients. And at least for me, I had anxiety about why I was so nauseous. Many women either don’t experience these symptoms at all until after they stop taking Yaz, or, they see a significant increase in symptoms once they are off the pill (as I have). These symptoms have been reported to last anywhere … Read entire article »
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Thankfulness: A New Perspective
It’s the last day of November, the month for celebrating Thankfulness. I try not to take anything for granted ever, but this month I’ve put more effort into thinking about what I am thankful for. Truly, I do live a semi-charmed life. And really, when it all boils down to it, most of us are thankful for the same core concepts: our health, our friends, our family. The big three, I call them. Certainly I have always recited this list when asked what I am thankful for, but the value of these things were generic, cliche, and dare I say it, taken for granted to a point. Or perhaps I can say that while I was thankful, I didn’t have a good understanding of the -true- value of my closest family, … Read entire article »
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Yaz and Axiety – My Personal Experience
This blog post is certainly more personal than normal. It is written in the hopes that it will help other women who are struggling with the side effects of Yaz, or any other birth control medication, perhaps without even realizing it. I have felt chronic anxiety twice in my life. The first time was 8 years ago as I experienced the demise of my first marriage. The second time is now. In hindsight, I have been having issues all summer long, but the major problems started at the end of September. In addition to anxiety that left me without the will or motivation to do much of anything (did you notice there have been fewer blog posts over the past month?), I’ve also seen a substantial increase in fatigue, migrane … Read entire article »
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What’s in YOUR Medicine Cabinet?
It’s October, and Fall is in the air. I’m loving the cooler temps and getting to wear jeans again. I’m not loving the sound of my daughter coughing. It means that she’ll soon have a runny nose, and she’ll likely give her new kindergarten cooties to her little brother, who will likely take it up a notch by incubating an ear infection. With two kids at different schools and a husband who works in a … Read entire article »
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