Category: Ariana’s Posts
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Where I’m at on my post a-POTS-calyptic Journey
Let’s take a look again at one of the pictures I posted last week. How many of you noticed that the hand on my hip was turning red in the fingers and knuckles? Just a road sign to anyone who knows to look for it that I’m on a post a-POTS-calyptic road. When I am…
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June Gratitude & Some Reading
To Jenny From the first day you met with us on Zoom you have been a constant source of support and positivity. You heard my challenges, you listened to my feedback, and you stepped in and offered to help with things you didn’t have to, like social stories. You were understanding when Tony was struggling…
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When You Can’t Celebrate, Find Something To Smile About
For all of us, whether your circumstances are like mine or quite different, there are times where we find we can’t internally celebrate- even if there’s a special occasion or two floating by. I spent my birthday doing a full day of therapy, multi-tasking as many things as possible. For example, unless Jenny or Tony…
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Celebrate Every Little Thing Like It’s Big
The stress in my life lately has been palpable and ravenous, requiring the delivery of an increasing diet of effort, guzzling sleep while leaving behind far too many regurgitated memories of middle of the night hours. Last night was the first night in several days I slept more than 6 hours. Tony was awake a…
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Celebrating 2 Years of Telehealth Speech Therapy Being More Successful Than The In Person Sessions 🙂
Tony has always, always hated speech therapy. For many years this was his least favorite therapy type, as every speech therapist who has ever worked with him can attest. Our little man understands a great deal more than most people realize (in both English and Spanish), but he still usually doesn’t want to communicate unless…
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Some Private Thoughts Made Public & A Bit Of Reading
Typically, I begin each new month’s postings with a gratitude note and then some form of recommended viewing, reading, listening…that sort of thing. Although certainly there are people and circumstances for which I could express gratitude this month, I am deliberately choosing to omit that because I am going to be typing my way around…
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April Gratitude & Some Reading
To Those Taking The Time… To those of you taking even teeny bits of time to chat with me on-line, thank you. Y’all know who you are: Kent, Ewa, Chris…and we all know you don’t have to. I’m going to keep this part very short, but that is not because this is a matter short…
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A Case For The Indie Makeup Brands
As I start this post, I would like to remind everyone that I am not a person who supports cancellation of a brand for past mistakes. I really admire the approach of blues musician Daryl Davis to painful and contentious differences…I know I have linked one of his TED talks on my blog before, but…
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The Autism Awareness Puzzle Piece Symbol Controversy: My Thoughts
We’re going to be taking a detour from what I originally mentioned discussing this week…but, I’ll be getting back to that, probably next week. Because I am still in burnout mode. Not just from the emotions of everything going on globally, within our local community, and within my own personal life- but because self-care is…
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Makeup Therapy On The Quick
Makeup has really become my own personal therapy over the past few years, a time during each day where I can focus a bit on doing something just for myself. Andy was showing one of his former coworkers some of my makeup looks a couple months ago (it’s a sweet spot in any day to…