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This is where I write about everything that’s close to my heart: mental health and wellness, self-care, writing, authentic living, connection, art, and more! Below, you can click through the Categories to read pieces about topics of interest to you.

If you like reading, you might enjoy Virtual Book Club and my upcoming book, Bloodlines: A Memoir of Self-Harm and Healing Generational Trauma.

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Just Finished, Up Next
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Just Finished, Up Next

Bytracey July 9, 2015

  Just Finished Women, Food and God, by Geneen Roth Six weeks ago, I walked into my local Weight Watchers center for what felt like the eight hundredth time. Months had passed since my last…

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Notes on Gratitude

Bytracey July 1, 2015

“The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious.” A New Earth, Tolle p. 300 I wanted to write a little gratitude post today about my cats. I mean, look at these two. Aren’t…

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Notes on Gratitude

Bytracey June 21, 2015

I am losing him. Each subsequent year, I forget a little more—the smell of his Old Spice, the shimmer off his salt and pepper hair, the way he’d lose his dentures and we’d have to…

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Things I Love, Notes on Gratitude

Bytracey June 14, 2015

"Belonging doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are." (The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, p. 25.) The older I get and the more work I do,…

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Just Finished, Up Next
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Just Finished, Up Next

Bytracey June 6, 2015

Just Finished If You Feel Too Much, Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For, by Jamie Tworkowski. Jamie Tworkowski is the founder of the non-profit organization, To Write Love On Her Arms or…

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Your meme or mine?
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Your meme or mine?

Bytracey June 3, 2015

The other day I was scrolling through my morning Facebook feed when I saw a meme that stopped my pointer finger in its track. The meme, posted by a friend of mine, read, “Sometimes the…

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