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Can I Just Have One Ordinary Week? On Chronic Illness, Marriage, and Survival Mode
Some seasons don’t bring one crisis. They bring five at once. Marriage, work, children, health, and healing all seem to demand attention at the same time. Sometimes the bravest thing you can say isn’t profound at all. Sometimes it’s simply… “Bahhhhh.”
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Nobody Told Me Migraine Could Make You Grieve Yourself: On Chronic Illness and Identity Loss
Nobody told me migraine could look like dementia. Nobody told me it could steal my words, my balance, my memory, my confidence, and the version of myself I knew how to be. This is the part of chronic illness people do not talk about enough — grieving who you were while you are still alive.
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I Got My Day Back. Then Got in Trouble for Dancing: Life with Vestibular Migraine
I was halfway up the stairs at graduation when the migraine hit—hard. What followed was popcorn, vertigo, survival mode, getting my day back… and somehow getting scolded for dancing later that night.
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I Said I Was Done. Then I Carried a Laundry Basket: On Midlife Motherhood and Showing Up
I said I was done pushing through. Then I showed up anyway, carrying boxes and noticing my kid isn’t really a kid anymore.
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Can Migraine Cause Memory Issues? What I’ve Lived and What the Research Says
For two and a half years, I wondered whether migraine could really take this much from a person. This is what it feels like when your body scares you, but your life is still full of love, humor, and people worth showing up for.