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Trauma has been part of my story for a long time.It started in childhood. By high school, I had a PTSD diagnosis. I lear...
09/30/2026

Trauma has been part of my story for a long time.

It started in childhood. By high school, I had a PTSD diagnosis. I learned how to survive, keep moving, take care of other people, and look fine even when my nervous system was anything but fine.

Then adulthood added more layers.

I married a man who became a Green Beret. That life came with deployments, long separations, injuries, uncertainty, caregiving, and stress that military families often carry quietly.

At the same time, dysfunctional family systems and unhealthy relationships did not magically disappear because I grew up. Some things healed. Some things required boundaries. Some things simply added more weight.

Eventually, my body started speaking louder.

Fibromyalgia. Migraines. Chronic pain. Fatigue.

Research shows a relationship between childhood adversity, PTSD, chronic stress, fibromyalgia, and migraine. That does not mean trauma is the only cause. These conditions are complex. But for me, understanding that the brain, nervous system, immune system, and body all affect each other helped so much of my story finally make sense.

Now I am learning how to live in a new normal.

I cannot always push through anymore. I have to pace myself. Rest. Move when I can. Set boundaries. Protect my peace. Nourish my body. Keep doing the trauma work. Lean into my faith.

And honestly, some days I hate having limits.

But I am learning that adjusting my life is not the same as giving up on it.

Healing may not mean becoming who I was before all of this.

Maybe it means learning how to care for who I am now. 🤍

09/30/2026

Daily and hourly checks for potential threats.
Mostly other dogs, turkeys, squirrels, and chipmunks. The black also doesn’t stand a chance.

Some threats call for heightened security & louder acknowledgment of said threats.

09/25/2026

Frey Frey doing what she loves 🤪 we realized last night that she sleeps like I do = tosses and turns all night. Whereas, Magnolia, goes into a coma like my husband. Magnolia is very gentle with us and Freya is a wrecking ball who thinks she is being loving and gentle.

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What is sacrificial love for your neighbor? For us, it was giving up our chickens because they bothered our neighbor whi...
09/24/2026

What is sacrificial love for your neighbor? For us, it was giving up our chickens because they bothered our neighbor while he was having his morning coffee.

What our neighbor told Doug was different than what he said to our other neighbor. Their coop was roughly 23 ft away from his house which is within breaking the 25 ft ordinance on Madison. We could have moved their little coop to fix the issue of distance.

This wouldn’t have fixed his actual problem and then we would have been dealing with his noise complaints. While we didn’t really do anything wrong and could have fixed the 2 ft problem nothing would have been truly solved.

So, I put them up to be re-homed in a FN group and they went to live on a farm this morning.

Many of you know that Madison has been the hardest place for me to live and our backyard was where I found joy. Now I feel like I can’t be back there because we cannot make any noise because it will disturb our neighbor.

Loving our neighbors well while being obedient to God sometimes means that we make a sacrifice by giving up things that bring us joy.

Many farmers in Wisconsin in the surrounding areas of Madison showed us kindness. Many offered to come help move the coop. Even if we moved their little coop, we would still have the chickens and our neighbor made it clear that they bothered him so much that he just wanted them gone. (This is what he told a different neighbor because he was very different when he spoke to my husband).

The kindness from other people is what I want to focus on right now. Being obedient matters more than technically being right.

Two more years and we’ll walk away from this place forever.

09/21/2026

Roxy, Magnolia, Freya. Magnolia is just like Roxy and Freya is her emotional support dog.

The jury is still out on who is caring for who in this relationship.

Their life is dramatically different than Roxy’s. Roxy was there for my husband’s military career (training, deployments, and living apart).

These girls have us home all the time with them.

Roxy did build a relationship with Doug until she was 2-3 years old. Through every season we have a dog. It takes two to fill part of the void she has left.

Today I’m taking time to honor and learn about Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish year.A...
09/20/2026

Today I’m taking time to honor and learn about Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish year.

As a Christian, I know Yom Kippur is not a Christian observance, but I believe there is value in learning about and respecting the faith and traditions of our Jewish friends.

Jesus was a rabbi. Jesus was Jewish.

Yom Kippur centers on repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, prayer, and returning to God. Those themes also challenge me to reflect on where I need to seek forgiveness, make amends, and love others more faithfully.

Christianity and Judaism are distinct faiths, but that should never keep us from treating one another with dignity, compassion, and love.

To my Jewish friends, G’mar chatimah tovah—may you be sealed for a good year.

And if I get something wrong, please educate me. I would rather learn than assume.

The more that I age the more I’m realizing that there are so many skills I was never taught. I’m now trying to self-teac...
09/19/2026

The more that I age the more I’m realizing that there are so many skills I was never taught. I’m now trying to self-teach some of these skills.

My parents never taught me how to cook, sew, garden, how to take care of a vehicle. I have learned how to cook and make REAL food from scratch.

I taught myself how to garden and to can food. My husband grew up on a farm so he helps with the chickens. I’m also teaching him how to move away from conventional farming methods and into organic & regenerative agriculture.

I want to learn how to embroider, sew, make my soap (I’m scared of using lye), make different cheeses, knit & crochet.

I have this feeling that these are lost skills that we are going to need again sooner than we think.

Victory gardens are coming back. People are wanting to raise their own chickens for meat and eggs.

This is how we used to survive. Most of society has lost these skills or like me, never learned any of them.

We spend so much money on things that we don’t need. While never learning foundation skills.

What is something that you are interested in learning and what is something that you can teach?

09/13/2026

Everyone follows mom in this house.

September 11, 2001 changed the course of American history, and the lives of an entire generation of military families.I ...
09/11/2026

September 11, 2001 changed the course of American history, and the lives of an entire generation of military families.

I can still remember watching the Twin Towers crumble. Like millions of Americans, I watched something unfold that was difficult to fully understand at the time. I had no idea how closely the events of that day would eventually become connected to my own life.

In the weeks following 9/11, the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom. The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) became one of the first American units sent into Afghanistan. Green Berets from 5th Group worked alongside Afghan resistance forces, conducting unconventional warfare against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Their early operations became one of the defining chapters of the opening months of what would become the Global War on Terror.

Years later, I would marry a man who served his country as a Green Beret with 5th Special Forces Group.

I learned what military service looks like from the other side of the uniform, the deployments, training cycles, injuries, uncertainty, long separations, transitions, caregiving, and the physical and emotional cost that can follow a family long after a deployment ends.

Eventually, my husband would medically retire from the Army.

My experience as a military spouse helped shape the foundation of Intentionally Healed®️.

It exists because I believe military spouses, veterans, first responders, and others carrying years of chronic stress deserve support that considers the whole person; physical health, mental health, nervous system health, relationships, purpose, and community.

Today I remember what started the path I would end up on. Today I remembered the lives lost. I remember the lives that are forever changed from serving our country. And today, I wish more than ever our country would behave like 9/12.

What began for me as watching history unfold on television eventually became much more personal.

We (my husband and I) are gearing up for another wonderful year of children’s ministry, leading community group and Bibl...
09/03/2026

We (my husband and I) are gearing up for another wonderful year of children’s ministry, leading community group and Bible study—and this year, we are also stepping into high school ministry.

Madison has been one of the hardest places I have lived, but it is also the place where I have felt the strongest conviction to give more of my time back to the church.

One phrase from Blackhawk Church that has really stayed with me is:

“The Bible was not written to us; it was written for us.”

That has changed the way I approach Bible study.

Instead of immediately asking, “What does this mean for me?” I am learning to first ask who the passage was written to, what was happening culturally and historically, and what the author was actually communicating. Then we can better understand how that truth applies to our lives today.

Studying Matthew and the Beatitudes right now feels especially timely.

Jesus continually points us toward humility, mercy, righteousness, purity of heart, peacemaking, obedience, and faithfulness.

And He also reminds us that grace and truth belong together.

Every single one of us sins. None of us gets to approach another person from a place of moral superiority. But loving people well also does not mean encouraging someone to remain in something Scripture identifies as sin.

We can love people deeply, extend grace, and still believe that Jesus calls all of us toward repentance, obedience, and transformation.

For me, this season is about continuing to show up, serve, learn, and allow God’s Word to shape my own life first.

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