Why I Had Taken a Break from Blogging
I feel like I owe you all an explanation. I said in my Blue Moon Cinnamon Horchata Ale Bread Pudding recipe post that I would inform y’all on what’s been going on and why I stepped away from blogging for several months. I thought after I wrote that post I was going to type up this post and publish it the next week, but it wasn’t that simple for me.
I’m still learning just how to be transparent to all of y’all while also keeping some things private and close to my heart. What sense does it make for me to try to build a personal brand to authentically connect with readers and then feel like I can’t really share my life with them? If you follow me on Twitter (BTW, go follow me @merci_britte) then you get
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My mind is a lot stronger than my body and I can’t lie and say that it doesn’t bother my state of mind on most days. I have to fight against the pain that I feel everyday and try not to complain about it unless it’s completely unbearable at that moment. It can take a good thirty minutes to an hour to get out of bed when I wake up because my limbs might be temporarily paralyzed or my heart is tachycardic and there’s nothing I can do about it. But once I get myself together after I wake up, I say a prayer, think positive thoughts and go on about my day!
Because my days are so unpredictable, I literally have to take one day at a time. Planning upcoming days can seem like an impossible feat because I never know how my body will respond. Most bloggers are great at planning their blog schedules ahead of time and sticking to it. To be honest, I started to develop blogger envy because I would read posts about how well other bloggers could stick to their schedule and because of their consistency, their following grew exponentially. I was struggling with growing my following on social networks because I couldn’t be as consistent as them. That destroyed my inner peace and I never should of let that happen because most of those bloggers don’t face the same challenges as me and I shouldn’t have been comparing my grass to anyone else’s, to begin with!
People that know me personally know
My personal branding is very similar. I want to surround myself with people who are motivated or have positivity as a goal. If they need encouragement, I am there to help them. The stronger and more successful they become, the better I feel about myself. Someday, they will help to encourage me to never stop being the best I can be. It is give and take. Working on my social media networking opens up more doors.
To most people, pain is a nuisance, but to others pain controls their life. The feeling discomforts us in ways that can sometimes seem almost imaginable. These feelings can lead to many different side effects if not dealt with or diagnosed. These effects can include depression, anxiety, and incredible amount of stress. The truth about pain is that it is vital to our existence. Without the nervous system responding to pain, we would have no idea if we were touching a hot stove, being stuck by a porcupine’s needles, or something else that could leave a lasting effect upon our bodies without us even knowing anything about it.
I’m BACK! I was in school studying phlebotomy for the last month and a half so now I’m studying for the state test and hoping to keep up with my blog again! Sorry about that, I hope you missed me like I missed you.
In The Atlantic article “Why I Blog,” Andrew Sullivan explores a relatively new and compelling medium of communication, blogging. He discusses how blogging has changed writing from a future oriented process of writing to a rather provisional sense of writing. Consequently, this makes the process of editing, revising, polishing and ultimately publishing almost non-existent in the realm of blogging. Sullivan goes on to note how the usage of blogs has created a bond between the reader and the author, and the pace at which that bond travels is seamless. Sullivan writes, “And the intimate bond this creates with readers is unlike the bond that the Times, say, develops with its readers through the same events.” Quite notably in this quote, Sullivan explains that the formal writing often associated with well known traditional newspapers, such as The New York Times, seems to lack a human quality; Whereas, blogging generates that constant flux of thoughts and paves a path of reassessment, through feedback from readers. “To blog is therefore to let go of your writing in a way, to hold it at arm’s length, open it to scrutiny, allow it to float in the ether for a while, and to let
The physical aspect of pain can be healed over time, whereas the mental can’t. Mental pain require professional help in order to help cope, and in some cases mental injuries can last a lifetime. This type of pain is usually associated with emotional distress. Despite all this, pain is a survival skill that our ancestors devolved in response to the dangers they endured millions of years ago. This skill is called fight-or-flight
Some point throughout our lives, we have experienced temporary pain in order to reach a more rewarding future. This pain can come in numerous forms for each individual, some physical pain, others mental or emotional pain, and some being a combination of the various types of pain. Whichever form of temporary pain an individual has, it is an obligation to be successful. I would venture to say physical pain is my dominant type of temporary pain. Temporary physical pain is something I have struggled with endless times in my softball career, just so I could play another game; this was the pain I I subjected myself to in order to keep playing the game I love. I realized after I fractured my hip during a game, too much pain took a lasting toll on my body. After the numerous doctor visits, tests, and X-rays, the doctors prescribed medication
The pain is intense and worsens as the day progresses. But, I think about a number of our classmates who face worse health issues. It helps put things in perspective as I continue to rely on the Lord to help me through this challenge.
I don’t know if you guys had noticed, but in the last two weeks I’ve been trying to enjoy my annual vacation as a chronicler, a required relaxation to reboot the memoirist tension, but life is not letting me.
It's been a bit of a shit time to be frank. There's been some difficult personal stuff that happened, which I will explain at some point (everyone's in good health, nothing to that effect), and I just couldn't motivate myself to write. I think you all know how it is. Sometimes you just want to curl up and
The combination of these factors often makes it difficult for patients to maintain mental toughness during the healing process--resulting in disrupted thinking, decreased mood, and an inability to relate to friends and family. To understand how to avoid this outcome, it's important to understand what mental toughness actually is.
The last two years have moved quickly, and everything has changed so much! Lately, I've been in a funk, I've been unmotivated.. if you can believe that, seeing as I just launched my Spring Catalog, but I maybe uninspired is a better word? I have so many thing to write about however, if I'm not feeling it, I just cannot turn it on! It's not that I don't love my pending posts, it's just something is holding me back from writing in the manner in which I usually do and in which you are accustom to. Family life has been weighing on my shoulders and it's always disheartening when family stops being family but unfortunately, you cannot pick your blood line!
Optimism, positivism, practicing faith and hope filled emotions have saved individuals from a lot of life threatening situations, and cause them to suffer less than an individual who engulfs themselves in hopelessness, despair and relinquish all attempts for looking for a healthy positive way. Pain does not only relate to physical
Sorry for my long time away folks, it’s definitely been an eventful last couple of months! For starters, I was working with the Panera Pro Team on new store launches and helped launch the new Panera in Aurora off of Smokey Hill. I would’ve loved to Blog but it’s kind of hard for the thought process to prevail when you are working 50-60 hours per work and training 45 new associates while all under the microscope of Panera Corporate from St Louis. We got that up and running and I was a late stay for the restaurant so was gone there for a month. After that, I came back to my Café in Belmar and was there at least for a month then I got a new job!
Distracting yourself from your pain can be a very healthy way to cope with the stress of living with a chronic illness.
No Te Rindas, translates, do not give up. The third book of the a series, Did I Mention I Miss You, by Estelle Maskame is a trilogy also including Did I Mention I Love You and Did I Mention I Need You. Tyler Bruce is a bad boy who does drugs and always gets drunk. Eden Monroe is a good girl who comes to visit her dad and stepmom in Santa Monica, California. Turns out Tyler is Eden’s new stepbrother. As the storyline goes on, they both get in trouble together, yell at each other, get taken to jail together, and they fall in love with each other. But it doesn’t help that people judge them for dating while they are step siblings. Eden is the only cure for Tyler to stop taking his edge off on drugs. Their relationship is hard to deal with; not