Food restriction is a sensitive and vulnerable topic to talk, write or even think about. If I’m being honest with you all, I’ve been wanting to share my experience with food restriction for awhile now. In fact, I wrote this blog post over a year ago and it’s just been […]

I work as a counselor with individuals who have had a brain injury and their family members. I was recently talking with a family member who is caring for his wife who has experienced a brain injury this year. He shared with me that since his wife’s injury, it seemed […]

My husband and I just celebrated our third wedding anniversary and it has me reminiscing about our special day and the honeymoon that followed. We went on an unconventional honeymoon and spent a week camping in Yosemite National Park. It was the best decision we’ve ever made (aside from marrying […]

In the first two months after my diagnosis, I was feeling good. My symptoms drastically improved after changing to a gluten free diet. As I talked about in my post, What’s Gluten Got to Do With It, I was able to enjoy our wedding day and honeymoon just two months after my diagnosis. For the first time in months, I felt like everything was going to be okay again.

Being diagnosed with any type of disease or illness usually isn’t associated with positive emotions. But when my doctor called me and told me that I had celiac disease, I was thrilled. At the time, I didn’t care that I was just sentenced to a life without bagels, pasta, bread, […]

I tend to be the type of person who typically struggles in silence. So why am I sharing my story with celiac disease? Well, because I think we live in a world where we are expected to have our lives wrapped in a neat little bow. We show our picture-perfect selves through social media and leave out all the hard stuff.