Category: women
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Hailees Daily Dose Things I hold in my hand
I have an assignment I have been working on for therapy. I’m supposed to write a poem about things I hold in my hand. It’s obviously a metaphor but I have been really struggling with this concept. What exactly do I hold in my hand? Well, to my surprise I hold alot. I hold family. […]
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Hailees Daily Dose Change is here
The last several weeks I have done a lot of soul searching and made some major decisions to change the things in my life. This has nothing to do with new years resolutions. Timing could imply otherwise but these things have been in progress for a while now. I just haven’t pushed myself into doing […]
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New Years “Unresolutions”
While watching social media and speaking with friends I hear everyone going on the New Year resolution kick. I don’t do N.Y. resolutions because that personally sets me up for failure. I make more progress doing the small things. This year I have decided to do an “unresolution” resolution as I have made too many […]
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Hailees Daily Dose Things taken for granted.
I’ve been mulling over different things to write about today. One thing that particularly stands out are the the things we take for granted. This really started striking home in me this morning. I have some health issues like everyone else. Yesterday morning I woke up not feeling well and tried to down play things. […]
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Hailees Daily Dose Way to go Utah
Utah has the privilege of being dead last in mental health care, has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation ( especially in men), unjust workforce pay difference between and women, we have one of the highest rates of prescription anti depressants for women and there has been no minimum wage increase since […]
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Friday Night Fun
It’s Friday night and I am bored so I thought a little fun would be good. Why not share my funniest, most embarrassing story. Mine is alcohol related imagine that. 😂 In my 20’s I was quite the party animal. I drank like a fish and on most weekends there was a keg and a […]
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Christmas 2019
Christmas started with me standing out in the stillness and black of the night while it rained on Christmas Eve. I love the smell of rain especially on a crisp winter evening. The moon was high in the sky, the streets and neighbors houses lit up with the beautiful colors of Christmas. The silence was […]
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HDD Finally Healing *Warning* There may be some triggers in this piece.
I write this every year to my momma and brother in some way shape or form but this year’s is a bit different. Please bear with me. There are some tough things I need to say. If I could talk to you mom and Cory, I have some things I would say to your face […]
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Lessons learned 2019
I’ve learned that I am loveable. I deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. I’ve learned it’s the little wins that are important. I’ve learned that it’s ok to be me. I am the way I am because of circumstance. Not because it’s my fault. I didn’t ask for life to go this way. […]
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Hailees Daily Dose
I grew up a total city girl. I lived in major cities around the U.S. and in other beautiful countries around the world. By the time I was back in Salt Lake, I was anything but a country girl. This morning, I realized that I have become quite a different person than the one I […]
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