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Palmerton

If you’re close to me, even if you don’t run Spartan races, you know this is hell on Earth and 2 feet.  I have talked about

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Too Rigid

The disease is so cunning.  It speaks in my own voice, knows my favorite songs and chuckles at my greatest fears.  It is the most patient

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Sharing My Story

Feels awkward.  Embarrassing.  Embellished.  Self-centered.  Stupid.  Ego-centric.  But when someone reaches out to me in thanks; when someone reaches out to me in prayer; when someone

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Self Pity

Is gross.  It feels gross, it looks gross, it is gross.  Especially when you don’t even realize how encased you are with its veil. I went

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Two Years

Being sober from food is tricky.  There are so many variations of what it looks like to be in recovery from an eating disorder, and those

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Tahoe

As I mentioned in my previous blog, I enlisted some help for my A race in Tahoe.  For those that do not know, I am an

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Down

It appears that I am on the other side of the pendulum, the down side.  I know it is just for this moment, and it is

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Inventory

Recently I’ve re-engaged in the practice of writing an inventory on paper every day.  I used to do it at night as a reflective practice, then

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I Talk Too Much

We were with people last night that we hadn’t seen for a while, and after walking and talking to our destination, I half-jokingly said “well since

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