Monthly Archives: March 2017

Hello… My name is JJ and I am addicted to Ryan Seacrest’s morning show… Darn you SiriusXM! Something on his show this morning struck me and made me think, there is a girl who is being bullied, the parent was told that this was going to happen because she is […]

I am at the gym to workout, not be creeped

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Yesterday I commented on an IG post that posed the question; What is the one thing you wish others knew about lupus?  My comment; that I’m strong, capable, a fighter, a warrior and I own my day. The rest of the comments were very negative based.  This got me thinking….. […]

Don’t let negativity own you.

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My dog, Sir Jackson Poodlen – or just Jack – has a bad hip too.  I never thought about this correlation between us until today, Jack is a 6 year old puppy mill rescue who loves to play, run, jump and everything else that dogs like to do.  He goes […]

How can we own the day?

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What competing means to me….. With my boyfriend’s (J) competition getting closer, I have been going through a host of emotions about myself.  Allow me to share; I am proud of him, excited for him, can’t wait to watch him – but – also I am jealous, I am re-driven, […]

Speak up for yourself…

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Yesterday was leg day.  My rest day was Wednesday and my coach sent me a text saying I should up my reps by 2 for each set.  I said, okie dokie smokie!  SHOOT!  What the heck was I thinking?! Exercise is good for relieving stress, like I have mentioned before […]

Exercise = stress relief

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Letting go of a toxic relationship doesn’t always equal immediate stress relief. Yesterday, a friend of mine made a comment to my blog; that sometimes we cannot see past the toxicity and it consumes us.  She hit the nail on the head for me!  I struggle with this, every day.  […]

Toxic Aftermath

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A couple days ago I touched on my stress and my flares, something that has been on my mind lately is toxic relationships and the stress they cause on the body.  Toxic relationships do not only hurt psychologically, they can also be physically damaging. I broke up with a “close” […]

Toxic relationships = stress = flares

Willingness to be afraid…Too afraid, to be afraid… true courage is being afraid, and I am the warrior going forward anyways… – JP Sears Yesterday, I was creeping through my Instagram and came across his latest interview; and I couldn’t shake it from my nugget.  I was afraid to start […]

Embrace the fear

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Today marks the week of new testing, fun fun fun… Recently I have been experiencing organ hardness after meals and extreme pain.  My doctors are under the assumption that I might have Lupus and another disease, or a misdiagnosis and a different disease – right now I am being looked at […]

Flares, stress and such

There is a question that was posed to me recently and it’s been on my mind, so today we are going to tackle that. Is the gym that important?  Important enough to break plans? We were discussing a friend of a friend who cannot hang out like they used to […]

Is the gym that important?