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I Choose Grit
a space to share our heavy burdens
  • Take up your cross.
    Hope | My Journey | Uncategorized

    Take up your cross.

    Byichoosegrit September 2, 2024February 26, 2025

    In the Catholic world, you hear a lot about carrying your cross. Offering things up. Approaching suffering in a way that allows it to be redemptive. But what does this mean, actually? I’ve been chewing on this a bit more…

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  • What it Really Feels Like.
    Blog. | chronic pain | Hope | My Journey | Pain Management

    What it Really Feels Like.

    Byichoosegrit April 16, 2024February 26, 2025

    2024 Edit of this post: Republishing the post from 2019 below, which I revisited recently while doing some blog revamping. While rereading this, I was so struck by how normal my way of operating was to me at the time…a…

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  • lessons from Lourdes // a whole new therapy practice
    Hope | Lifestyle | minisode | work

    lessons from Lourdes // a whole new therapy practice

    Byichoosegrit January 22, 2023August 2, 2024

    Some of you know this, and some may not (because it’s maybe been a bit since I’ve been here)– but apparently if you send a girl to Lourdes, she’ll come back ready to start her own therapy practice? I’ll be…

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  • With Me.
    Blog. | general | Hope | Lourdes.

    With Me.

    Byichoosegrit September 23, 2022August 2, 2024

    After a (beautiful) escapade through Ireland, the beginning of my final weekend in Lourdes started pretty choppy. My mom, who was supposed to be with me at the time, happen to acquire a massive kidney stone a few days before…

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  • Lourdes pilgrimage
    Hope | Lifestyle | Lourdes. | minisode

    One Month as a European.

    Byichoosegrit June 23, 2022August 7, 2024

    I’ve been living in Europe for one month. I’ve been living in Europe for one month? Time is flying and I don’t even know how that’s a thing, but whatta packed month of beauty it has been. Post-family wedding in…

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  • Lourdes
    Blog. | general | Hope | Lifestyle | Lourdes.

    Two Weeks In.

    Byichoosegrit June 8, 2022August 2, 2024

    Just like that– I’ve been in Europe for two weeks (and a whirlwind of two weeks at that).Between bus rides, trains, and a lot of time in the air, so much has happened in the past two weeks that I…

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  • Changes.
    Blog. | Gritty Stories | Hope | Lourdes. | minisode | work

    Changes.

    Byichoosegrit May 11, 2022February 27, 2025

    The last 13 months in a nutshell: 1) saying yes to a (part-time) middle-school counseling job after a long season off to focus on my health, 2) a long commute, working around student schedules, and expectations beyond simply counseling soon…

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  • Gritty Stories | Hope | Podcast

    Berta Hawley: One Well-Earned Diploma.,

    Byichoosegrit August 29, 2021June 17, 2024

    So, so glad that all get to hear from my friend, Berta Hawley in the latest podcast episode. To put it simply: this girl is my hero. Berta was born with holes in her heart & entered the foster care…

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  • Gritty Stories | Hope | Podcast

    Bri: Poked + Prodded 5x a Day

    Byichoosegrit February 19, 2021June 17, 2024

    This week’s episode features a conversation my friend, Bri Mueller & I had this fall (on our loud street) about living years of her life with Type 1 Diabetes. To be honest, I had no idea *quite* how demanding of…

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  • when a global pandemic makes you stronger.
    Blog. | Hope

    when a global pandemic makes you stronger.

    Byichoosegrit January 12, 2021August 8, 2024

    After a conversation with a mentor of mine recently, she commented on how, while a number of people have grown more discouraged during this strange time, it seems like I’ve gotten stronger. She is right, and there are a few…

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