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a space to share our heavy burdens
  • Gritty Stories | Hope | Podcast

    Lona: Homelessness.

    Byichoosegrit October 21, 2020June 17, 2024

    Happy to share the story of my friend, Lona Owens, on the podcast today. Lona & I sat down this summer to chat about her experiences with homelessness & the grit she discovered within herself through that process. Hear what…

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  • Hope | Podcast

    Becca: A Rare Disease at Seventeen.

    Byichoosegrit October 8, 2020June 17, 2024

    HAPPY BDAY to my birthday buddy for life & todays podcast guest, Becca Syens! Becca’s a childhood friend I’ve know for life & I loved getting to sit down with her and pick her brain about her experience with Aplastic…

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  • Gritty Stories | Hope | Podcast

    Sam: I Got Mono & it Never Went Away.

    Byichoosegrit October 8, 2020June 17, 2024

    Catching up on podcast blog posts for last weeks’ episode featuring my friend Sam Wiebersch. I LOVED sitting down with Sam to chat about how she’s chosen grit in so many ways due to struggles she’s had with her physical…

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    A Global Pandemic & Podcast Season TWO.

    Byichoosegrit September 8, 2020June 17, 2024

    Despite our lives being completely. INSANE, Summer 2020 was an oddly sacred time to me in the midst of all the chaos. One of the greatest blessings? Prepping & recording a whole slew of podcast episodes to share with every…

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  • Blog. | Hope

    It’s a Process

    Byichoosegrit July 16, 2020June 17, 2024

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the stark similarities between experience a chronic illness & experiencing a global pandemic these days, and there’s one thing about how this year is playing out that I really, really, just don’t understand. I’ve…

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  • Christmas….and PODCAST!
    chronic pain | Hope | minisode

    Christmas….and PODCAST!

    Byichoosegrit December 30, 2019June 13, 2024

    Christmas for me in a nutshell: Jesus, puzzles, Little Women, burning cookies, fixing my broken car, basketball, catching up with friends from home, and…….PODCAST. What a blessed week celebrating a God that is born into the unexpected the same time…

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  • Blog. | Hope | suffering

    When our entire country is suffering.

    Byichoosegrit August 5, 2019June 13, 2024

    A brief reflection on injustice following the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas over the weekend (8/2-8/4): It’s often easy to forget the broken state of our world today. When suffering and painful situations arise we often either 1) look…

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  • Suffering is Not Popular.
    Blog. | Hope | socializing

    Suffering is Not Popular.

    Byichoosegrit March 12, 2019August 9, 2024

    Do we ever see pictures of the chronically ill on the cover of a magazine? Is “I am sick” ever a slogan used to win a presidential election? Are the students who are too sick to go to school the…

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    Wading In.

    Byichoosegrit February 12, 2019August 9, 2024

    Recently updated in summer ’24. 🙂 It doesn’t take many years of living on this earth to learn life isn’t fair. Whether you’re the one to discover an empty box after your siblings beat you to the Little Debbie’s hiding…

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