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It’s been 5 years this week since I started my health journey. And I definitely didn’t get it all right. My “success story” would tell you that I lost 100lbs by diet and exercise alone. But it leaves out the nitty gritty. It leaves out the times I exercised for guilt. The times that my

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my story Hi, I’m Sarah! Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. Don’t mind the dust bunnies, they just seem to follow me wherever I go.14 years ago in the pits of motherhood I found a blog. Then, another one. And another. For the first time in a long time I felt connected to

12 years ago I began my blog. At the time, I was a stay-at-home Mom without income, using a hand-me-down laptop from someone’s workplace that would eventually have a broken LED screen that I would hold a flashlight to the edges to try and make out the words and images. My camera was an old

I’ve noticed something over the years. I’ve watched and been inspired through hundreds of stories of women working to improve themselves. Losing weight. Hunkering down. Tackle the issues. Slowly but surely out comes a whole new person. The “after”. This post isn’t to inflate one or shame another. This is a post to explain that,

We didn’t know then.⁣⁣We didn’t know that this new chapter would bring about whole new challenges. ⁣We didn’t know that we would be separated for much of the big stuff.⁣We didn’t know that there would be so much light, and yet I would slip away into a whole new darkness. ⁣We didn’t know that things

This post isn’t going to be what you think it is. It’s not a post in which a man came along and swept me off my feet and made me feel like a whole and complete woman, perfect as-is and never needing to change and then, therefore, I fell in love with myself because of

You might not know this, but back in my early 20’s I was a DIY home blogger. I was a stay-at-home mom of 3 and was finding my way in the world trying to help myself and other live on a single income and still have a creative outlet. Really, I just needed a creative

The language and labels we choose are so important. ⁣Life changing, really. ⁣⁣The words placed on subjects begin determining a worth or value factor, even suggesting it’s truth. ⁣⁣Families of divorce are labeled “broken”. ⁣Families not of divorced are labeled “whole”. ⁣⁣It wrecked me, those labels. ⁣Paralyzed me with fear of them. ⁣⁣How, on the