Her Badass Story by Dr. Lori Monaco is a compilation of stories written by nine brave women.
These experiences of these women surely will resonate with something you have experienced in your own life. Many of them started their lives behind the eight ball–behind many eight balls, in some cases.
But this is not where their stories end. It’s where they begin.
Geronda Wollack-Spiller’s words in Chapter 7 will feel true for anyone who has ever lived in an abusive household: “My home was not my shelter …” as will Chenille Hernandez’s words in Chapter 3 for anyone whose job has taken a turn for the worst: “My dream job became my shit job.”Keep reading
When my kids were little, my husband occasionally took them fishing. Fishing time for them meant reading time for me, because I stayed in the car with my book.
Win-win.
Because I never had any interest in fishing. But now, suddenly, I do.
From years of watching North Woods Law, I knew I had that I had to get my fishing license before I could catch a fish. Check! Next, I needed a fishing rod. Check! Next on the list was learning to cast.
Even though it was nineteen degrees out yesterday, my husband decided that it would a great day to teach me how to cast.Keep reading
Now that I am no longer watching ANY propaganda—whoops!—mainstream media, I have so much free time to fill with learning and doing new things!
I found Brooke Whipple’s YouTube channel, Girl in the Woods, and I love it.
Why do I love it? Let me count the ways:
I tested it with my one word for this year by asking, “Does this ALIGN with my values?” Freedom? Check. Being brave? Check. Getting outside? Check.
Also, one of the absolute best ways to get out of your head (read: anxiety producing thoughts) is to ground yourself in your body, and one of the best ways to do that is to get outside and be in nature.
So in addition to being able to pretend I am out in the woods alone building a cabin, I also am learning a lot exactly what skills are needed for this. You know, just in case I ever decide to be brave and actually do it!Keep reading
Lynda’s wonderful radio program is on Sunday mornings. I was lucky to be invited to talk with her recently. If you’d like to listen in, you can either stream it online at www.wlobradio.com or in Maine you can listen on WLOB 100.5 FM or 1310 AM. It will air at 11am on Sunday 10/18/20.
Lately, when I’ve been going to medical or dental appointments, I am being confronted with a demand to ‘Just check your temperature real quick’ … as if this is not an invasion of my privacy. As if this is a mandate rather than a request to perform a medical intervention on me. Sometimes it is not even a medical professional aiming that device at my face, between my eyes.
Why question this?
Anytime anyone tells you they are going to do something to your physical body rather than asks your permission, all the red flags should start waving. All the alarms should begin to go off in you mind.
They did for me.
Where did informed consent go? It went right out the window the minute you consented to this medical procedure without question, as if it were normal.
This is one of the reasons I am so concerned about the safety of this practice: When I go online and search “Why you shouldn’t allow infrared thermometers to be aimed at your face,” Google offers up page after page of articles about why it isn’t okay for me to be questioning this. [Read that last sentence again].
Every medical intervention has both known and unknown effects on us. Also, medical devices are not always consistent and are not always accurate. Plus, an elevated temperature can mean many things. Body temperature fluctuates with the time of day it’s taken, what the person was doing just prior to measurement, and for women, what time of the month it is or if they are in menopause, to name just a few variables.
Some questions I have about infrared thermometers include: Does infrared light harm eyes? Does infrared light harm skin? Does infrared light affect the pineal gland and if it does, how? Does allowing a gun-shaped device to be pointed at one’s face perhaps set one up to not dodge assault at a future time?
Maybe you have some questions as well.
If I allow my temperature to be taken with an infrared thermometer, I decline to have the device pointed at my face, between my eyes, and I offer my wrist instead. This is what I am doing right now (subject to change as I discover more information about this that I deem trustworthy).
Karen Creamer
