Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: Book Club-ception

bon bons

Aunt Michelle, Mom, Jenna, Aunt Lisa, Nikki and I started a “Crazy Corbin Girls Book Club” this year, and after leaving the Ozobot book club I had while in California, I could not be happier to have a book club to belong to again!

The first book we read was Little Fires Everywhere in February, then Where the Crawdads Sing was March, and most recently we discussed April’s book – Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons – on the first Wednesday in May.…

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Tuesday – May 7, 2019

All the things I’ve set out to do at one point or another that I always feel I “should” be doing:

  • Yoga with Adriene monthly calendars
  • Cardio exercise 30 mins 3x/week
  • Calm app daily meditation
  • Bullet Journaling / planning
  • Morning Pages freeform journaling, or coming up with my own journal method
  • Time Block scheduling for the work week + personal weekly schedule
  • DailyOM Best Year of Your Life online course (a weekly challenge for 52 weeks)
  • DailyOM Breaking Free from Anxiety course
  • Kyle Cease’s The Limitation Game: Interactive
  • MasterClass.com
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I have Anxiety: My Mental Health Journey

NM hike

Re-posting with some edits after it got lost in our website host server transfer – originally posted October 26, 2018.

As last week (or maybe the week before… “What week is it?” is one of the games Reid and I like to play now that we’re on this vagabond adventure) was National Mental Health Day, I thought I would share something I’ve been trying to figure out how to best post about on my blog and have been procrastinating hitting publish on – which is – how I’ve recently begun therapy for anxiety.…

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Work-out Wednesday: Walking & Yoga

yoga mat

Last night, I went over to Mom’s to have Pizzeria Testa and wine together. We started talking about my post from Monday, and all of my exploration with goal-setting and habit-forming lately.

We started discussing how I have struggled with questioning if I truly want writing as my “thing” because of the fact of how I’ve procrastinated writing so much in the past.…

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Three years ago today, I went skiing for the first and last time

skiing

This picture showed up in my Facebook memories this morning, so I thought I’d tell the story of my one and only time skiing, plus my takeaways or life lessons from this experience. Can’t you just see the fear in my face?? Eeek.

Setting the Stage, er, Slope

It was March 2016 and Reid and I had some friends visiting us in California who we wanted to go to Big Bear Mountain with.…

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Here’s My Story Morning Glory: Birth Control and Birthdays

ozobot going away

I woke up on Wednesday with this on my mind, have been writing it since, and figured I’d share since at least the first half may be useful anecdotal experience to help someone decide what to do in their own safe sex and/or family planning journey.

If this may be TMI, so what who cares, I think people should talk about this stuff more and I’m an oversharer and open book in everyday life anyway, so here goes.…

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