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Holiday stress and anxiety.

Holiday stress and anxiety. How’s it making you feel? Kinda like you want to rip your own hair out? Or at least chop it off? Yep. That’s...

The follow up.

You know what happens when you listen to your body and your doctor… You start to feel better. You don’t need to use your frequent flyer...

This is (almost) 31.

Learning to give myself grace when needed is one of the hardest things I have had to do. And to be fair, I've done my fair share of hard...

Welcome to my TED talk.

Today I want to talk about healing. (And by today, I mean the week it took me to write this because I have 752 other tasks to complete.)...

Can you imagine?

Going into the hospital, yet again, after already being stuck in there for months on end... Being told you needed to go in for a small...

This is my fight song.

I've done a lot of growing up in the last three years. From getting engaged, to getting sick, to my hospital stays and countless...

Forged in fire.

Here I am again. Not sure what I'm doing, who I'm writing to or who is even reading this. But yet again, somehow you've found yourself on...

Wow, it’s been a long month. 🥴

Why am I being tested? AGAIN?! Our entire house flooded. The whole thing. A total wash. Excuse the pun. I'm just over it. Who decided...

To the first annual recipient…

To the first annual recipient of the Kimberly R. Barchard award… Thank you. You have no idea how much this means to me. I read the letter...

Did you know…

…it costs zero dollars to be a kind person? When you see a mom who looks stressed, trying to feed her kid a decent breakfast and get some...

How did we get here?

Well I have no clue what I’m doing on here sometimes but this is where I’ve found myself… Apparently along with all of you. Everyday I’m...

My scholarship is LIVE!

My scholarship. An award given in my name, by me, with the help of those around me. "The Kimberly R. Barchard award is given to a senior...

The good AND the bad.

I'll start off by saying I was talking with a close friend today... Now, it doesn't really matter how we met or how we became friends but...

Therapy.

Therapy is hard. Like really freakin' hard. I got down to the nitty gritty of some of where my anxiety and depression stems from this...

Hard pills to swallow.

HARD PILLS TO SWALLOW This isn’t for opinions or criticism, these are my thoughts and if you choose to read it, I hope it helps you in...

Surviving; not thriving.

How do you go back? How do you start over? What happens when you end up back where the route of all your trauma stems from? But this...

It’s…

It’s messy hair. It’s exhaustion. It’s forehead kisses. It’s drool covered clothes. It’s rocking the baby to sleep. It's them waking up...

Common colds.

Why can't we just have a common cold anymore? Why does everything have to be "highly contagious" or "omg the vid?" I went to the doctors...

November.

November beach days. Do you know how nice it is to be able to go to the beach in November in New England? To sit in the sun with your...

The one with Matthew Perry.

The one with Matthew Perry. You all know him. He’s everyone’s favorite Friend. Did you watch his interview? Did you see why he decided to...

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