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Month: December 2019

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12 Days of Christmas

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 pattysfitnessjourney

1980 was the last Christmas we had my dad. He was very sick then too. He passed away in January of 1981. So when Christmas 1981 came, it was our first Christmas without our dad. I was 20 and my younger sister was 15 and my mom was 53 and a widow. Right around December… Continue reading 12 Days of Christmas

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Health (as in Mental)

December 3, 2019 pattysfitnessjourney

This post may be triggering for some so I am warning you now - do not read if talking about suicide bothers/triggers you. I have a question. If you have a terrible headache and it's going on four hours now, and you know that taking Tylenol or Motrin will help you feel better, what do… Continue reading Health (as in Mental)

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Travel Day

December 3, 2019 pattysfitnessjourney

We get in our car to drive to the airport and at that very moment we receive a notice from United that our plane is delayed.  I said, let’s go ahead and go and “wait” at the airport.  (We work from home and I needed to get Dave away from work.) Hanging out in Grand… Continue reading Travel Day

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Swimming Is My Moving Medicine

December 3, 2019 pattysfitnessjourney

National Swim Meet Rewind with me for just a moment to the winter of 1983. My final year of college swimming and I once again had failed to qualify for Nationals. My teammates had pleaded with the coaches each year to take me along as a relay swimmer, but funds were tight and four girls… Continue reading Swimming Is My Moving Medicine

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Overcoming RA & Hashimotos. @underwateraudio & @themagic5. #samehere🤙 @ellyandgrace

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Memories of my father come in waves. I was just 1 Memories of my father come in waves.  I was just 19, when he passed but omg do I remember how he loved the monkeys at the Oakland Zoo.  I haven’t visited a zoo in a VERY long time, but today I went to the Omaha Zoo and just smiled as i watched the gorillas, remembering my dad and soaking in the moment with my daughter.  Memories are cool!

#omahazoo, #gorilla, 
#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
Here’s June! Here’s June!
It’s been a minute! I’ve missed this. Shirt It’s been a minute!  I’ve missed this.  Shirt from @ellyandgrace.

#hiking, #colorado, #nature, #wellness, #samehere, #mentalhealth, #pattysfitnessjourney, #reclaimingmylife, #magic5, #underwateraudio, #peace
If you had known me in my childhood and you had as If you had known me in my childhood and you had asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I’d have replied with zero hesitation- “a mom.” It has been my most joyous occupation out of all of them.  I wanted to be a great mom like my mom had been (and continues to be for me.)

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you and my thoughts are with you mothers that I know on here who have lost a child way too early. 

I was also blessed to have a great mother-in- law!  She is missed.  Count your blessings every day and live each day to the fullest!

🥰😘💕. #reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
Happiness! @gozoquadhire #reclaimingmylife, #get Happiness!

@gozoquadhire

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
Driving the quad in Gozo after 3 years of not bein Driving the quad in Gozo after 3 years of not being able to grip with my right hand because of RA, was even more fun than when I did the iFly a few years back. 

We had a great guide with @gozoquadhire.  They drive on the opposite side of the street here and for some reason, I thought we’d be driving on the beach.  But no!  We drove on the streets and they wanted me to be first (following the guide car). It’s a good thing I didn’t have much time to figure out we weren’t on the beach, etc.  I just kept saying, “I am strong.  I am capable.  I can do this.” And I did.  So thankful for @drlizrook asking me if I’d like to live with no pain about 12 weeks ago. Humira has certainly done that for me!  No pain meant loads of fun today!

#malta, #gozo, #reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
Saturday morning sunrise! Views like this! #malt Saturday morning sunrise!  Views like this!

#malta, #westindragonara, #reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
Happy Sunday! Have a great week. Spread kindness Happy Sunday!  Have a great week.  Spread kindness. 

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
And so it begins — LEAD 277 Dave is sure enjoyin And so it begins — LEAD 277
Dave is sure enjoying driving.  OH to CO this trip.
Working on this! #reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealt Working on this!

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
R&R with family who love me unconditionally. "Hono R&R with family who love me unconditionally. "Honor your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you."

May you live long and prosper.  Here’s to a great week ahead. 

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to fee To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.

Writer/Priest Barbara Brown Taylor

#sundaysermon, #preacherpatty, #reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
So speak encouraging words to one another. Build So speak encouraging words to one another.  Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind.  I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it.  I Thessalonians 5:11 Message Bible

#wearyourfaith, #ellyandgrace, 
#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime, #preacherpatty, #sundaysermon
Making his way back to me. 🎵🎼🎵 Making his way back to me. 🎵🎼🎵
Why not? Be a Light! Have a great week. Shirt Why not?  Be a Light!  Have a great week. 

Shirt from @ellyandgrace shirt of the month club.  Wear your faith!

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️💯(Still a great one.) Y ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️💯(Still a great one.)
You are holding a cup of coffee ☕️ when someone comes along and bumps into you 🤦‍♀️ or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee? 🤔 “Well because someone bumped into me, of course!" 🤷‍♀️
Wrong answer. 🙇🏿‍♂️
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.  Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out.  It's easy to fake it until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves....”what's in my cup?”☕️. When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility? 💓
Or anger, bitterness, harsh words and actions? 💣
You choose!
Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation to ourselves and others, kindness, gentleness and love. 💜 💕 💜. 🙌🙌
Happy birthday Thảo Trang! The best nail techni Happy birthday Thảo Trang!  The best nail technician I know.  I had a guy stop me on a hike in Maui (coconut photo) to say “nice nails.” Then he told his girlfriend, “look at her nails.” Thao does great work.  Have a great birthday!
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living som Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. .…. Happy Valentines Day to all my friends and followers!

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
You matter! My new sweatshirt. Lost a friend thi You matter!  My new sweatshirt.  Lost a friend this weekend.  It sucks!

#youmatter, #988, #mentalhealthmatters, #mentalhealthawareness, #samehere, #ugh
"Swimming is the ultimate workout, combining physi "Swimming is the ultimate workout, combining physical strength, endurance, and mental relaxation in one satisfying dip." Thank you Chat Ai. 

#reclaimingmylife, #gettinghealthy, #motivation, #progressnotperfection, #healthylifestyle, #health  #wlstories, #nsv, #rheumatoidarthritiswarrior, #hashimotoswarrior, #reclaimingpatty, #slowandsteadywinstherace, #youmatter, #kindness, #pattysfreshperspective, #samehere, #onedayatatime
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Memories of my father come in waves. I was just 19, when he passed but omg do I remember how he loved the monkeys at the Oakland Zoo. I haven’t visited a zoo in a VERY long time, but today I went to the Omaha Zoo and just smiled as i watched the gorillas, remembering my dad and soaking in the moment with my daughter. Memories are cool!
Here’s June!
It’s been a minute! I’ve missed this. Shirt from @ellyandgrace.
If you had known me in my childhood and you had asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I’d have replied with zero hesitation- “a mom.” It has been my most joyous occupation out of all of them. I wanted to be a great mom like my mom had been (and continues to be for me.)
Happiness!
Driving the quad in Gozo after 3 years of not being able to grip with my right hand because of RA, was even more fun than when I did the iFly a few years back.

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