Treasures within the Shadows
On March 15, 2020, we conceived our first child. Lessons from a pregnancy and miscarriage during the COVID-19 crisis. I have always known that IVF ...
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Trust: Easily Broken, Seemingly Impossible to Repair.
Trust: Easily Broken and Seemingly Impossible to Repair. So, How Do You Pick Up The Pieces and Move On When It’s Gone?Waiting for someone else to p...
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Shedding the Weight
Reconnecting with myself to re-learn my body’s love language. It might help with my acne, but could this be the key to a long-lasting, happy relati...
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The Art of Compromising
They say compromise is the key to a happy relationship, but could it help cure my adult-onset acne? It’s been 6 weeks now since that dark, rainy ni...
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For Love of the Fight: Unconscious Self-Sabotage
Hell bent on being my own worst enemy, I can’t help but wonder: Was it self-sabotage or was I f*cking things up because I needed to get out? We’ve ...
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Acne Woes— Trial and Error, But Mostly Just Error
As I sit here drinking my daily cup of bone broth, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what was going on with my body last last week. Nothing e...
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Acne Scars — Battle Wounds or Badge of Honor?
Acne Scars — Battle Wound or Badge of Honor? Remember when we were kids and getting a scar felt like wearing a badge of honor? I remember getting h...
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Was I Using Cover-Up or Was I Covering Up?
Last week after the burns on my face cleared up, I decided to stop using concealer in hopes that giving my skin a chance to breathe might help it h...
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Hoping Getting Worse Means Getting Better — Below the Surface with Adult Onset Acne
Hoping that Getting Worse Means Getting Better It was a rough week for my new relationship guys, I’m not gonna lie. Half way through the week my br...
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#WeAreAllDaughters: Susanna, mom and life coach for special needs families
“I am a mixed race (native Taiwanese + European), multi-cultural, single ‘mompreneur’ happily (and proudly!) in her mid-40s raising a pre-teen daug...
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Below the Surface with Adult Onset Acne — the Struggle is Real.
I was at war with my body for the last 5 years and it was the most exhausting battle I’ve ever fought. We are taught to strive for perfection and s...
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What is success, really?
For years, I’d been too busy to sit and read a book. I had no time to get lost in a good story or better yet, read a book that reinvigorated my spi...
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We can’t rely on medical treatment when we get sick. Now what?
My parents come from a generation of medical specialists who were trained to diagnose illness through hands-on, interpersonal communication. They u...
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"It's like my primer for my emotional transformation. That's what I call the [essential] oils. It just primes me, and it's up to me to do the work. It's up to me to listen in, to tune in, to shift my energy, to be really aware, to react differently."