by Heidi Sloss | May 24, 2021 | Gratitude, Health, Mothering |
Remember those school assignments from grade school given at the start of the year where the teacher asked for an essay along the lines of ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation?’ I picture many of us telling the stories of our pandemic experiences for years to come. We have...
by Heidi Sloss | Sep 4, 2020 | Gratitude, Health, Mothering |
I’m writing a letter to my left ankle and it needs to be extra precise because at the moment it is wrapped in a splint because it is swollen, or actually it is swelling – more active than passive. And the stitches are still in, holding my skin together after being...
by Heidi Sloss | Mar 26, 2016 | Cancer, Health, Lifestyle |
I spent most of February and March worried about breast cancer. It felt as if I had fallen down a rabbit hole and couldn’t get my bearing for the last six weeks. It turns out that what I thought was good news after my repeat mammogram, was really only the beginning of...
by Heidi Sloss | Feb 11, 2016 | Cancer, Health, Mothering, Yoga |
After getting a mammogram last week, I learned that I needed to have a repeat one done. These are not words that any woman wants to hear, much less one who is a cancer survivor. Once you have heard the dreaded cancer diagnosis, everything feels like borrowed time—even...
by Heidi Sloss | Aug 25, 2015 | Birth, Health, Mothering, Yoga |
For the past 25+ years I have been dealing with ankle injuries, surgeries and recoveries. During that time I have spent countless hours trying to figure out why. For years I felt responsible for creating the drama and trauma that came with my ankle adventures. It felt...
by Heidi Sloss | Jul 21, 2015 | Australia, Health, Travel |
Buying a bathing suit use to a suck. It was a miserable, unpleasant experience that always left me selecting one that I hated the least. That all changed when I lost 55 lbs in 2011. It still isn’t as pleasurable as buying a new purse, but it is no longer traumatic....
