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Why I Cold Plunge
I am compelled to clear up a misconception. In the few days since receiving my Renu Therapy Cold Stoic 2.0 cold plunge tank, I have received multiple comments from various people insinuating that I prefer the cold. Suggesting that it’s easy for me. Assuming that I’m different because I like the cold while others prefer…
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Cold Plunge Journey 2
Listening to The Huberman Lab podcast on deliberate cold exposure, I learned something quite surprising. The best place to put something cool or cold on the body to bring your temperature down if you are overheated (risk of hyperthermia) is NOT the back of the neck or chest. Why? Because of the medial preoptic…
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Cold Plunge Journey
This is the first of several posts I’m going to make on cold plunging or deliberate cold exposure. I began my cold plunge journey back in February of this year (2023). I regrettably decided to start in the Winter, enduring the Puget Sound’s coldest water temperatures in the 30s and 40s° F. I would spend…
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Queen Hatshepsut
Image – Sphinx of Hatshepsut Original Location: Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt Current Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY I fell in love with Hatshepsut (hat-chep-soot) while reading the book The Woman Who Would Be King by UCLA Professor and Egyptologist Kara Cooney. Ms. Cooney paints an amazing portrait of life in…
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My Menopause Manifesto
I am in the beginning chapters of my Menopause Coaching Specialist certification program. To put menopause into perspective, between perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, half the population (IE, anyone with active ovaries) will spend half their life in a menopausal state. It has been both validating, as well as eye-opening to read about the various…
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Advanced Planning
I’d be completely lying if I said I didn’t start to mentally pack my suitcase within 2 minutes of getting off the phone with National Geographic after booking our trip to Egypt (for October). In the following weeks, it’s all I could talk about to the point of my husband rolling his eyes even before…
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Ancient Egypt
To be honest, I can’t remember when my curiosity and interest in Egypt began. One of my first lessons in Egypt came from a ballet classmate. Her name was Allison, and she was obsessed with ancient Egypt. We were in ballet together for several years when we were young. When I spent the night at…
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The Invisible Made Visible
This journey started in October 2018 when I visited my good friend and fellow Wonder Woman cosplayer in Houston. She showed me a fun edited photo of Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet captioned “Well Played Air Force, Well Played.” She also showed me a YouTube video of a news clip on the Invisible Jet at the Smithsonian Air…
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Join Me In Making Magic
I grew up in a home where, when it came to entertaining and the Holidays, the hostess (IE my Mother) did all the work. Aside from cleaning the garage just before the party, my father did little to help. The guests never lifted a finger. Their every need was anticipated. Their glasses were always full…
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The Day Of My Hysterectomy
I was scheduled for a 6:45 am check in at the hospital, and a 8:45 am surgery. Michael and I arrived and got checked in. We were shown to my pre-op room. I was told to strip down to “nothing but what God gave you” and wipe my whole body down with some special wipes. …
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