My Boyfriend Never Said I Love You And I Married Him Anyway
There are a lot of ways that a person can be loved and show love. In America, it’s often not culturally acceptable to be in a loving relationship without saying the words, “I Love You,” to each other. Here is my story of how I married my boyfriend even though he never said I love you and ways you can survive and even thrive in a relationship if your boyfriend won’t say I love you.
5 things that helped me make peace with needing hearing aids at 34 years old
I'm Getting Hearing Aids at 34 Even Though I'm Terrified
8 ways to help you make the medical appointments that you're avoiding
Four strategies to help you finally call and make the medical appointments you know you need but are terrified of making because of fear of bad news from the doctor or general health anxiety.
I avoided getting my hearing tested for at least five years after I should have gone for a baseline test due to a family history of genetic hearing loss.
Here are the four strategies I used to help myself make an appointment with the Audiologist (and go) even though I was terrified of what the results of the visit would mean and wanted to continue to avoid it.
Five Reasons I'm Obsessed With Folklore (Taylor Swift's New Album)
Five Reasons why I’m obsessed with Folklore, Taylor Swift’s newest album. As a 33 year old female who’s been a fan for decades, here is why this album resonates with me and why you might like it too. Here at Girl Squad Fit, we talk about all things fitness, staying injury free, & well other things women love including Taylor Swift (how do you think we came up with the inspiration for Girl Squad … Fit?!).
We Planned A Wedding In Juneau Alaska In 6 Months Here’s How We Did It
What we did to plan our Juneau, Alaska destination wedding at Skater’s Cabin near Mendenhall Glacier. Including all vendors (photography, officiant, food, transportation), cost, and photos of our wedding. This post is specifically made for adventure brides who want a simple, fun, non-traditional wedding & would like to plan it with the least amount of stress possible.
My Coach Story
In 2015, we were in the middle of a year long deployment. I found myself over-worked, exhausted, & frustrated that I wasn't any closer to achieving the "American Dream." I was sacrificing my health in order to work full time, pay off $151,000 in student loan debt from PT school, & fit in time with my friends/family. I gained 15lbs, felt uncomfortable in my skin, lacked energy, & wasn't exactly clear on how to feel success while doing this adulting thing.
The Best Shower Head To Buy On Amazon
I had been complaining about how lame our inherited shower head was in the guest bathroom where I shower most mornings for over a year after we bought our house. My complaints were that the sprayer part (technical I know) was only on the outside ring, which left me no water in the middle. This was such a pain while shaving my legs because I had to search for an appropriate water stream that was strong enough to wash the little hairs off my razor. I also swore I wasn’t getting all the shampoo out of my obscenely thick hair. So this year during Valentine’s Day…
5 Ways To Decrease Pelvic Floor Tightness
Pelvic floor tightness is a condition where the muscles of your pelvis, the ones that control your bowel, bladder, and sexual functions become tight. Since they’re muscles, they can become tight or weak just like any other muscle in your body, take for instance your hip flexor muscles (the muscles you use to bring your knee toward your chest in a sitting or standing position). You’ve likely come across tight hip flexors if you’ve experienced back pain, knee pain, or got into a half kneeling position (the “will you marry me?” pose) and then tried to shift your weight forward. It can feel RATHER uncomfortable to experience this tightness, like your muscle magically transformed into a rubber band that is pulled to its max capacity. It’s like that for your pelvic floor muscles too. ..
Physical Therapy Strategy To Decrease Pain With Sex
I want to start this off by telling you what a good Catholic girl I am, that I’m a professional, that I care about how you see me so much that I feel the need to preface the next vulnerable and personal lines of this blog post with accolades & personal stories of how nice I am in real life…
Sex doesn’t have to be painful or uncomfortable. You don’t have to avoid positions because “you just can’t do them,” and wonder why there must be something broken within your body that isn’t allowing you to relax and enjoy something that is so primitive and intimate as sex. You see, sex requires muscles. Those muscles can get tight or weak or spasm or believe that something that once was traumatic (sexual assault) will always result in the same trauma…
I Avoided Counseling For 17 Years, Why I Decided To Finally Go And Why You Should Consider It Too.
In 2001, something bad happened to me. Something traumatic, life changing, life altering. I was in eighth grade; an innocent, barely interested in boys, totally quintessential “good girl,” in every way possible. New Years Eve of 2000, I went to sleep a trusting soul, when I woke up, I wouldn’t quite ever see the world the same again….
We strive for years and decades to prove to ourselves that we are stronger, more resilient, we are not victims. Yet if we continue to strive forever, we are not actually healing. We are pushing and proving and being all the things to all the people, but never the things we need in the deepest parts of ourselves. We need to be loved, to feel worthy, to accept, to forgive (ourselves the most), to believe, to trust, to honor the girl who experienced the traumatic event, but to let her go because she cannot be the girl we are in our most healed version of ourselves…
*warning: this is a potential traumatic trigger story written in the most gentle way possible
I Went To My First Women's Health Physical Therapy Appointment, Here's What Happened
I felt nauseous all day after writing my first blog post about my upcoming women’s health physical therapy appointment on Monday evening. It was at 5:30pm and so that left approximately ten(ish) hours of feeling seen, vulnerable, and afraid. I’m learning it’s not just the fact that my sexual & private area organs need help that I cannot take care of on my own that causes the discomfort, it’s mixed with some weird form of SHAME. I put that word in all caps, because it’s a violent word in the feminine language. It’s a word that may make you want to click off this blog right now, for the sake of your soul though, please don’t.