Building a Blog at 40+ You are 15 and just came home from a date with your boyfriend. It was the last date because he just broke it off with you for your best friend. On top of that, you just failed your chemistry test, and your parents are going to have your ass. Once your parents found out and the gig was up about your grades, they could still sense you were under immense stress. So what did they suggest? Write your feelings down in a journal. They swore it would help get them out of your mind and onto paper. It worked. But. What if someone were to read these thoughts? So you hide the journal. Because at the end of the day, as good as it was to write about how your slut-faced bestie has been schmoozing it up with your boyfriend, the embarrassment of someone reading how you TRULY feel would end life as you know it. Starting a blog at 40+ is the opposite of that. It’s empowering. It’s solidifying. It’s magic. I am convinced that when a woman’s perimenopause symptoms increase, her give-...

What Lupus Feels Like – Part 1 I thought I'd start a blog series about what lupus actually feels like. It's such an intricate little shit of a disease. There are so many symptoms, so many ways it shows itself, and no two people experience it exactly the same. Sometimes it's hard to believe one disease can cause everything it does. First of all, lupus is an autoimmune disease. Instead of protecting you from infections, your immune system mistakenly attacks your own healthy tissues. Imagine that. The body that's supposed to be your homie isn't trying to kill you per se... it's just committed to making your life incredibly miserable. Symptoms can include swollen, painful joints and tendons, kidney, brain, and other organ damage caused by both the disease and, sometimes, the medications used to treat it. It can also affect your skin. Rashes can appear on your face, scalp, arms, legs—basically anywhere there is, well... skin. Other symptoms include fatigue, diarrhea,...