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Mental Health

Your Story Is Mine Too

November 1, 2022 By Caroline Peterson

Most people will be surprised to hear I was pregnant. We told very few people and even fewer knew we had officially decided to enter the wild arena of parenthood. I hesitated even sharing my story because it’s still very much raw, the kind of raw that only the course of time will smooth the […]

Filed Under: Health, Mental Health

My 84-Mile Hike Across England to Recalibrate

August 17, 2022 By Caroline Peterson 1 Comment

“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit.” – Elizabeth Gilbert To say the last few months of my life have been transformative, would be an absolute understatement. I did what so many of us need to do more and took care […]

Filed Under: Mental Health

I’m Here to Validate Your Social Media Break

November 20, 2021 By Caroline Peterson

Collectively, we’ve all considered it. We’ve all wondered what it would be like to just peace out and go back to the days when our every move wasn’t posted in some form on the internet. Some people we know have even—gasp—done it! Social media specifically feels so…smoke and mirrors. You know those yearly holiday cards […]

Filed Under: Copywriting, Mental Health

Have You Tried a Hard Restart? A Lesson in Grace.

November 8, 2021 By Caroline Peterson

I knelt alongside the shards of broken glass now strewn across my kitchen floor when it happened. That tight wad of stress, knotted in my stomach, suddenly became undone. My brain, clenched in fight-or-flight, finally released its tight grip. My body said softly to me, “Enough.” It gently nudged me while I was on my […]

Filed Under: Mental Health

9 People Share Their Daily Pandemic Schedules

March 10, 2021 By Caroline Peterson

One of the best things I’ve discovered from running Not Your Average Gal is that we are far more alike than different. Since being somewhat socially isolated for nearly a year can often lead us to believe we’re doing things alone or differently, I wanted to ask people to share what their daily schedules look […]

Filed Under: Confessions, Mental Health

5 Steps To Make A Problem Worse

January 13, 2019 By Caroline Peterson

Whether we want to admit it or not–whether social media wants to portray it or not–we’ve all got our fair share of problems. We all have our own way of coping or completely ignoring the problem hoping beyond all hope that it will just go back to it’s dark cavern only to come out around […]

Filed Under: Mental Health

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