A Sip of Sakki

A year ago today I lost my beautiful mother very suddenly to cancer. It’s a day that will forever be ingrained in my memories, and even still the details are so vivid of the night...

Hashimoto’s: I have an Autoimmune Disease

I mentioned in my 2018 year in review that one of the things I was nervous about was my own health. January 1st I went to see the phlebotomist to give away some blood for the typical...

This is a very long story, because my mother didn’t want us to say anything publicly while she was alive. If the title didn’t give it away, my mother recently passed from this...

One Year Later

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Hashimoto’s: I have an A...

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Love and Loss: The Death of my...

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Apr 2, 2017

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Week Six: Face up, moving onto Supine

Six weeks… it’s really hard to believe I’ve been back in school already for six whole weeks. At this point I’ve started to get a very good feel for my core classmates (we combine two classes, Full Time Spring ’17 so FTS17 and Part Time Morning Spring ’17 so PTMS17 for sciences), and we’re all starting to make friends with one another here...

Mar 27, 2017

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Safe Space: Things I learned in School

One of the classes I am required to take while in school for massage therapy is called Wellness. This class is dedicated to understanding how to communicate, set boundaries, and understand enough about the human condition to appreciate what our role is in the life of another as a Licensed Massage Therapist. As an LMT we are not going to be able to diagnose, prescribe meds, give a...

Mar 25, 2017

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