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🐾❤Life with retrievers. We have an entire ho 🐾❤Life with retrievers.  We have an entire house but they must lay right here, inbetween our two desks.

#goldenmix  #doodlemom  #doodlesofinstagram  #labradorretriever  #labradorsofinstagram  #labradorable  #goldador
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🥳 Happy Friday! How was your week? I noticed t 🥳 Happy Friday! How was your week?

I noticed that I have been way less stressed and burnt out.

Here's what I have been doing differently:

🐕‍🦺1. Making sure I get out ALONE and walk the dogs every day. Usually, we go out for family walks with the dogs, but it's hard to relax when you are coaxing kids to walk up mountainous streets. I have started going by myself, something I have always enjoyed. I take all three dogs -- first my two easy ones go together and then I take my strongest one by herself and pray we don't pass any other animals that she will try to chase and pull my arm out of the socket or send me flying. When I walk alone, I can go at a brisk pace and burn off my stress from the day. I come back feeling lighter. 

☀️2. Getting outside with the kids for at least an hour after work. This week we started going to the lake in town. Being out in nature, soaking in vitamin D, and disconnecting from technology is the transition I need in-between work and mom-mode. The kids need the outside play, too. I'm pretty sure it helps them fall asleep earlier.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦3. Taking mini breaks from the computer.  I'm making an effort to eat lunch on my deck or walk in the yard a few minutes during the workday. Bursts of sunshine! I try to eat with my kids and enjoy this time at home together. When I do this, I get back to my desk with renewed energy. 

😴4. Going to bed by 10 p.m. I used to force myself to stay awake and watch an hour of TV with my husband, but when I do that, I wake up groggy and cranky and drag through my day. With two kids and three dogs (one with signs of dementia), I never know how many times I will be woken up at night. It's so important to get as much sleep as possible. It makes a significant difference in my mood and energy for the day ahead. 

📝Lesson Learned from this Post: Make time for self-care to be the best version of yourself.

🎒Bag Talk: I am wearing my @birdlingbags backpack to the lake these days. It's lightweight and I can carry around sunblock, bug spray, and drinks for the kids in the side pockets. I also take it with me on my dog walks!

❓What are your self-care tips?
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💬 Do you have #chronicfatigue or #epsteinbarrvi 💬 Do you have #chronicfatigue or #epsteinbarrvirus? 

✔I do.

📚I got a severe case of mono in college and had to take a semester off--- and stay in bed for six months. I was unable to do anything. Eventually, I slowly came back into the world, but I have never been the same. I don't even know how I got sick, but I swear it was drinking from a dirty cup at a book store cafe where I worked for one week.

🥄Over the years, I have become a #spoonie and learned how to manage my energy so I can have fulfilled days. I am super strict about going to bed early and sticking to a schedule. I know the only exercise I can handle is walking. I take my B12 and in a pre-pandemic world, got B12 shots every 3 weeks. Going without then has been pretty hard but I am thinking about going back to my regular schedule soon. 

I'm interested to see if there is actually any progress with this research!

❓Do you have chronic fatigue? 

📩I would love to connect! 

No one understands how life is unless you have it! It has definitely caused me a lot of issues in my social life from those that don't understand how important rest is and how much we need to plan and pace out our days unless we want to spend the next week in bed.

And I love my bed... but only during my planned sleep 💤 

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#cfs #chronicfatigue #epsteinbarr #epsteinbarrvirus #chronicfatiguesyndrome #invisibleillness
🎸 Were you a punk rock/ indie scene kid?

🙋‍♀️ I was. Music ruled my life and fueled my dreams.

📰 I ran an all-female staffed indie music fan 'zine for 10 years and eventually we turned it into one of the first music web TV shows. 

🎵 One Wapred Tour in particular, we were chosen by Drive-Thru records as Best Fanzine and got to make the label's magazine for Warped and interview all their bands. AMAZING.

⭐My friend @stephaniemariaaa made my day yesterday when she texted me a photo of that Drive-Thru fanzine I made, being sold as a "super awesome and rare" collectible on #depop.

📸 Took me right back to the days of us young girls hauling suitcases of 'zines and cameras at 8 a.m. across stadium parking lots and bribing little fans to help us. Sweating under tents and being so excited to just be able to walk up to the Skeleton Crew table and interview @frankieromustdie for a My Chemical Romance story. Or interviewing Vinnie from The Movielife under stadium stairs. And that time we interviewed a new band called Good Charlotte and I debated if we should put them on the cover of our next issue. Or when Tim Pagnotta from Sugarcult took my camera while he was on stage and started snapping pictures of the crowd. 

❤ We felt so alive. And I have suitcases upon suitcases of those old 'zines, pins and flyers to walk down memory lane one day with my kids. 

❓What are your favorite Warped Tour memories!?
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#warpedtour #punk #punkrock #drivethrurecords #zine #fanzine #musicfestival #concert #mcr #frankiero #mychemicalromance #sugarcult #themovielife #goodcharlotte #indiemusic #scenekid #emo #writer
Stealing this from @rosalynbriar because this is w Stealing this from @rosalynbriar because this is why I wrote @trashthedressbook
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#divorce #authorsofinstagram #author #trashthedress #authorssupportingauthors  #beverlycleary  #quote #book #booksofinstagram  ##inspiringquotes
📖 Do you keep a gratitude journal? ✔ I do. 📖 Do you keep a gratitude journal?

✔ I do.

💙 And the lake is making my list again tonight. 

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 While sitting on the beach with my husband and watching our kids throw rocks in the water, I thought about how everything in that moment was so perfect. After basically lifetimes of struggle individually and years dreaming together as a couple, we made it to the life we envisioned. I don't take anything for granted.

🌈 Never, never, never give up!! I had no clue this was the life waiting for me when I got divorced in my 20s, but here I am, over a decade later. I came home from the lake to get an email from a young woman who is just embarking on her divorce journey and requested to join my @trashthedressbook private support group. It's still going strong, all these years later. There will always be young women getting divorced, and my story-- and those of everyone I interviewed for the book-- will always be here to show you that you will move past your obstacles and make it to the life you were meant to lead. You may not see it at the time, but it will come! Stay strong and stay positive.

🌞 And find one thing to be grateful for every day! Write it down! I love writing in a gratitude journal because it's like the busy mom's diary. It's a quick recap of your day and it encourgaes you to keep a positive mindset and find the bright side in everything. 

❓What are you writing about in your gratitude journal tonight?
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#gratitude #gratitudejournal #mindfulness #thankful #blessed #lakelife #writersofinstagram #encouragement #empoeerment #womensupportingwomen 
#writer #trashthedress #divorcesupport #divorced #remarried #divorce #girlpower #book #readinglist #booksofinstagram #author #authorsofinstagram
🌞 How do you decompress after work? 💦Now th 🌞 How do you decompress after work?

💦Now that we live in a lake community,  this beach is going to be my new favorite place.

🔽Comment below if you live in a #NJ lake town!
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#lakelife #laketown #nj #newjersey #beachlife #healthyliving #healthandwellness #destress
🐾Ok, remember how 5 seconds ago I posted that I 🐾Ok, remember how 5 seconds ago I posted that I was enjoying sleeping in?

🤣Well, this guy was enjoying it, too. I thought he was sleeping but he was busy tearing up books and biting the hand off MY favorite mermaid Barbie.

❓Do you have a new puppy? Share your story! Comment how it's going below!

@pawsitivitypups
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#puppylife #puppygram  #doodlesofinstagram #poodle #goldador #poodlemix  #doodlepuppy #goldador #goldenmix #doodlemix #doodle
🐥🌻🌸🌼🏵🌷HAPPY SPRING BREAK to ever 🐥🌻🌸🌼🏵🌷HAPPY SPRING BREAK to every mom who doesn't have to manage virtual school today.

Don't be fooled by this photo, I am still laying in bed savoring every moment of being able to sleep in a little later.

Anyone doing anything fun on your spring break?

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#wahm #momlife #virtualschool
My @hottoolspro straightening iron just exploded a My @hottoolspro straightening iron just exploded as I was using it and it was basically terrifying to see a bright orange spark shoot out while it was so close to my face. So beware if you have one. I have loved this iron for years! 

Please send me quality irons you love because I need to run to @ultabeauty today and get a new one.

I think I did a good job finishing my hair with my @revlonhairtools blow dry brush though!

This is my second surprise from the universe this week. A few days ago a neighbor's dog came running out into the street and ready to attack my dog and kids, so that was eventful and super terrifying.

Is Mercury in retrograde?

Glasses today: @cynthiarowley for @zennioptical
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#hottools #revlon #hairstyling #hair #notanad #zennioptical #mercuryinretrograde
Portrait of a wife who just went into Target to sh Portrait of a wife who just went into Target to shop for the first time in over a year and her husband who didn't yell at her for buying the whole store... because she actually didn't!

The real win of the day, though, is my new antifog glasses from @zennioptical that I specifically bought so my glasses don't fog up with my mask on. What a difference!!

#notanad 
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#target #zennioptical
Which one best describes you? (This is my actual c Which one best describes you? (This is my actual collection!)
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#littlemissbooks #mrmenbooks
#childrensbook #kidlit
#booksofinstagram #bookcollection
Happy National Puppy Day from my pack @pawsitivity Happy National Puppy Day from my pack @pawsitivitypups to yours.

#nationalpuppyday
Happy Monday. Hope everyone got some sunshine 🌞 Happy Monday. Hope everyone got some sunshine 🌞 this weekend!
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#doodlesofinstagram #puppygram #golddadordoodle #goldador #doodlemom #doodlelife #doodlemix #goldenretriever #labradorretriever #poodlemix #poodlesofinstagram #poodle #mixedbreed
I can only hope I am actually as cool as the caric I can only hope I am actually as cool as the caricature that @kenn.dub made for me. Thank you!!!!! And thank you @kai.dub!! 
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#charicatures #art
👩‍🍳I started baking my own cookies every w 👩‍🍳I started baking my own cookies every week since I can't eat anything on the market! Even things I think I can eat are ruined by a spice like rosemary that I can't eat.  So I found a recipe I adapted from @ambitiouskitchen

Free of all my allergens! SOY-FREE!!!

✔Peanut butter
✔Oatmeal
✔@enjoylifefoods dark chocolate
✔ dark brown sugar
✔ eggs and baking soda
✔Sea salt

They are amazing and just the mini power bites of energy, sweet and salty that I crave!
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#foodallergies
#foodallergymom 
#peanutbuttercookies
#soyfree
#cookies
#oatmealcookies
#justbaked
#enjoylifefoods
#allergywarrior
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Nursing my 13-year-old plott hound today. Yesterda Nursing my 13-year-old plott hound today. Yesterday she had to go get an IV for pancreatitis. I am so glad we took her! Animals usually don't show us pain until it's too late and for a few days I thought she was having random anxiety.... until it got to the point where I knew we had to call the vet. Lulu is girl power to the max. She overcame having litters of puppies, cancer, and now this. She is a @herowithgirlpower. 

Today, I am also really proud of myself for driving in the rain on a highway (I hate both) to the doctor to get annual bloodwork results that give me ANXIETY and PTSD. I took my time driving, played my uplifting @311 music that calms me, and then read my @therapynotebooks anti-anxiety journal. It all kept me in a calmer state of mind. 

As worry snuck in while I had to get a surprise EKG and wait for the doctor,  I used positive affirmations to stay present and not make this a catastrophic situation, predicting negative outcomes, in my brain. 

And then, when I saw my doctor and got my results that EVERYTHING IS GREAT, I felt such a relief and so much better that I was not wasting weeks worrying.

I wanted to enjoy my ride to the doctor as some "me time" and I am glad I wasn't in a state of panic.  I worked really hard using coping tools to not let this event consume my mind.

My body overcame the fatty liver from pregnancy issue I had after my son was born. But getting that random bloodwork result and then going through six months of tests of not knowing what was wrong with my liver has forever impacted my mental health. 

Healing is a process but I am really proud of how far I have come!

I hope this post encourages you to get your annual wellness exam and be proactive about your physical and mental health during this pandemic. 
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#anxiety #mentalhealth #girlpower #rescuedog  #anxietymanagement  #warriornotworrier  #anxietywarriors#plotthound
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