Tag: stress
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Succumbed to COVID After 2 Years
It only took 2 and a half years. Being sick sucks. It started with me feeling dizzy. Then I was exhausted and achy. Then my throat felt like I’d been swallowing glass shards. It only went downhill from there. We sequestered me in the main bedroom to try and keep our daughter from getting sick.…
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Rambling Update: Baking and Boundaries
I made blueberry muffins today. They were made with sourdough discard and cornmeal based on the Blueberry Sourdough Muffin recipe from King Arthur Flour. These were sooooooooo much better than the blueberry muffins I made last week. I will definitely try this recipe again. The last muffins were blueberry banana muffins. They were too sticky and…
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Crippling, Coping, Failing? Anxiety for a WFH New Mom
Anxiety is a constant companion. Closer to me than my best friend, my husband. More demanding of me than my daughter. I’m thinking of giving it a name. Perhaps Chelsea? Every morning I wake up before my alarm to stress about my to-do list. By the time my toddler goes down for her nap, I…
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4 Ways to Relax/De-Stress
What a world we live in. These last few months have been a doozy and 2020 doesn’t seem likely to slow down the curveballs. Between lockdown leaving so many people cooped up or unemployed, BLM making obvious the brutality and injustices that have always been there, and the social media onslaught of too much information…