2020
The weirdest year on record
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Trying to Remember Gratitude in the Midst of Chaos
Last week got heavy for me. As I looked back over the posts I wrote shortly after Heather’s death, it began to weigh on me again. And while I feel it is so important to make other’s more aware of suicide and its devastating impacts, I also cannot let those consequences pull me down. While my intent was to keep posting things, life got a little busy and a little subconsciously I stepped away from posting. I thought about it a lot, but didn’t do anything beyond that. The title of our blog is my life’s motto, I will try a little bit harder every day to achieve my goals.…
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Repost from 6.8.18: Trying to Help Others
As the launch of our website coincides with National Suicide Awareness Month, I felt it was important to share these posts again. They are hard for me to read because of the rawness, the realness of it all. If you are reading this it means you are loved, you are needed, YOU matter. Its been three months since Heather’s death by suicide. And as that anniversary ticked by I thought about all that has happened in my life in the last three months besides her passing. Nothing spectacular or especially noteworthy, but life has happened, daily life stuff that prior to March 5th I would have shared with Heather and she…
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Repost from 3.23.18: Trying to See the Light
I originally posted this on my Blogger site in 2018. This post is hard for me to read, but Zoe is proud of what I wrote and asked me to reshare this on our new site. Its an uncomfortable subject, but as tomorrow starts National Suicide Awareness Week, it seemed the right time to re-share this. Two and a half years ago today, on March 5th, 2018, my best friend since kindergarten, at 28 weeks pregnant, died by suicide. This is the first in a series of posts I wrote about that life altering event. A few days a week I start my work day with a writing prompt journal,…
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Trying to Overcome Adversity
We posted this on our Instagram on 06.02.20 – the 2nd day back to practice after quarantine – the day that altered Zoe’s practice for almost the entire summer. Thankfully we’ve come a long way since then! This was Zoe’s first post for our joint endeavor and I think she did a pretty good job! 🙂 Zoe will post an update to this ordeal very soon! Today definitely did not go as planned. Go back two days, and I was ecstatic to be getting the opportunity to get back in the gym. I was ready to reinvent myself, starting completely from scratch. The first day back, I exceeded any expectations…
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Here We Go!
It’s been way too long since I’ve really written anything. I don’t know why other than so many thoughts have been swirling in my head. It feels like there are so many varying thoughts and opinions right now – some far-too heated to comprehend. I have definitely spent far too much time in my own head thinking about these things, and too much time worrying I will offend someone with something I write (because it seems lately someone is ALWAYS offended). I just have avoided putting pen to paper to avoid everything. Not the brightest idea when you are trying to launch a blog, but taking a note from the…
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Trying to Get Through Quarantine
“Things happen. Can’t waste time when so much living to do.” This is a quote from a text a friend sent me early in March. It was in reference to something not even remotely related to our current reality. It feels like forever ago, yet it is so much more relevant now than it was then and has morphed to a completely different context in my mind. I barely recognize the life we were living then. If I have learned anything over the last two years it is that no amount of planning or strategizing can prepare you for the unexpected-albeit often cruel twists life throws our way. But out…
