FTC Disclosure: This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Is it too late to say Happy New Year? So much has happened since we last spoke and I can’t wait to tell you about all of the changes and adjustments I’ve made in life. Spoiler alert: They aren’t ALL good. But such is life, right? On an insanely good note, I got the opportunity to check out a Resolutions 2020 themed BabbleBoxx. Are you overwhelmed, but in a good “oh so excited” way? Good, I am, too. Let’s do a quick rundown of the goods so that we can geek out together.  First up are Full Spectrum CB ..read more

I was compensated by Med-IQ through an educational grant from Novo Nordisk to write about the realities of obesity as a chronic disease. All opinions are my own.A few weeks ago I dropped an Instagram Story where I showed that I had officially lost 11 pounds. It took me almost 3 months to lose all 11 of those pounds. It also took me 3 months to even get the nerve to publicly admit that I was trying to lose weight in the first place. This may be hard to understand if you don’t have a social media presence or if you’ve never dealt with being overweight. You see…I don’t always want to give the per ..read more

This is a sponsored post.The first time a friend told me she had HIV, she couldn’t stop laughing.She didn’t laugh through tears.She just laughed.I stared blankly at the wall behind her. Rarely am I at a loss for words and yet there I was… wanting to find something, ANYTHING to say to my friend who had revealed something so personal to me. We were in college and living our best lives. We weren’t supposed to have to deal with things like…HIV.“It happens, right?” she said as she shrugged it off.Maybe she was attempting to be stoic. Maybe she had already done the dramatic fall-out wailing. And may ..read more