Category: Blogging
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Life| Anxiety and Depression in Young People
🌻 Anxiety and Depression in Young People: Why It Feels So Different Now Over the years, I’ve noticed something that’s both heartbreaking and eye-opening — more young people are quietly battling anxiety and depression. You can see it in their eyes, their body language, and sometimes in the way they retreat when life feels too heavy.…
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Life|Flava Daily Chronicle | Friday Flow
🌻 Flava Daily Chronicle | Friday Flow Morning: Left home to a soft sprinkle — arrived to a full Seattle downpour. ☔ That’s the Pacific Northwest keeping me humble. Mid-Morning: A coworker kindly showed me something new about marking travel info for patients… then proceeded to walk me through how to check in a patient…
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H&W| When Sitting Still Hurts
🌿 When Sitting Still Hurts: The Connection Between Constipation and Back Pain By Simply Flava Let’s be honest — constipation isn’t glamorous to talk about, but it’s something so many of us quietly deal with. Between long hours sitting at work and stress that tightens everything (including our gut), it’s no wonder our bodies start to…
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H&W|When Pain Management Targets the Nerves
Understanding Neurotomy: When Pain Management Targets the Nerves A patient called today asking about a neurotomy, and I’ll admit — I had to look it up myself. The word sounded familiar, but I wanted to be sure before answering. What I found was actually fascinating. A neurotomy is a procedure that involves cutting or disrupting…
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Life | Coming Home to My Peace
Coming Home to My Peace After a day of ringing phones, problem-solving, and pouring out care, I cross my threshold and exhale. My home is where the noise softens and my spirit remembers itself. Musty posts up at the window like a tiny security guard. Ghini shuffles close, offering that warm, wordless comfort only cats…
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H&W|Eight Chairs, One Moment of Calm
Eight Chairs, One Moment of Calm By Lady Flava | Simply Flava Reflections Today, I finally joined the CV Crew for chair yoga — eight of us moving, stretching, and breathing together. 🧘♀️ Nurse Kirstin started this shortly after I began working here, but I’m usually upstairs when they do it. Today, though, was my…
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Life|65|Reflections on Healing & Remembrance
🌻 The Warmth They Leave Behind Simply Flava | Reflections on Healing & Remembrance Sometimes love doesn’t disappear; it just changes shape. It becomes a blanket folded in a drawer, a photo glowing beneath a lamp, a tumbler on a shelf that still feels like a friend’s steady hand. When I pulled out Sheryl’s Seahawks blanket…
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