My Health Journey - Part 2 + Insights

My Health Journey - Part 2 + Insights

Just realized I somehow completely skipped over how the mental symptoms played a major role in my college journey. Made the already hard enough college transition x100, kinda "fell off the grid" from family & scared them through my depression so much that my grandparents bought me a train ticket to force me to come home for the weekend (was the best thing & finally learned important tricks for depression like NEVER just stay in your room), that depression can change, forcing myself to somehow kinda become an extrovert 😱, FUN story of 1st public panic attack at TSwift's concert, etc. So for a future ep! I don’t even know if I explain it well enough, but this will just have to do for now to start explaining what happened. Stick around, I will expand on the details and experiences in future podcasts. Let me know if there’s anything you’d especially want more info about. This was recorded March 2nd into the 3rd, 2023; added notes in the beginning from around September 10, 2023. Finished editing September 17 & 19, 2023. Shoutout to my dad opening a Coke Zero in the background of the beginning notes (what happens when I actually record during the day… hence the scratchy low voice—also because I had just woken up lol). 😂 Tried a new thing. Thought the topic(s) could use some uplifting by some great background music in the first and last ten minutes. The 1st songs are beautiful covers by Leon Alex (“Skinny Love” and “I’m Just Ken” [lol] 😌). Here’s a shorter and possibly even more romantic version—it’s just gorgeous: https://open.spotify.com/track/7recXytpGLyZRl4KJ0oT0d?si=7baa0873d20c43f6 [https://open.spotify.com/track/7recXytpGLyZRl4KJ0oT0d?si=7baa0873d20c43f6] Editing glitch at the end, supposed to be Where Are You Now instrumental not silence oops 🙃 Intro/Outro Song: Until We Get There by Lucius (yes, from New Girl 🥰). Please check out the song in its actuality! Mod’s dairy free cheese is at Target! It’s called Daeya. Update, just saw this hours ago may explain some things too idk at least brings awareness. Mold exposure’s effect on health needs to be looked into even more: https://kfor.com/news/there-needs-to-be-some-sort-of-accountability-former-ou-student-sues-university-over-mold-exposure/ [https://kfor.com/news/there-needs-to-be-some-sort-of-accountability-former-ou-student-sues-university-over-mold-exposure/] Listen to the next one to hear the rest of that “thought” I mention around 41:00 😬 Texas IS failing me. 😔 Checkout Justin Baldoni’s Man Enough (and he definitely is THE dream man so take his advice 💯). Ironic talking about that special moment with MyMy and losing her (also tend to sing “my my my my my” from Skinny Love all the time) because I’m uploading this on the fourth anniversary week of unexpectedly losing her. Almost did on the very day, but had to get other things done before working a wedding. (Let’s just say, I especially hate Friday the 13th—sorry Blondie, I don’t find them to be lucky 💔.) I wish I knew what I was saying at the very end too but that’s when my laptop died on me lololol. It was like, “okay nope you’re done, go to sleep” 🤪 Something about being able to see the issues, or maybe even benefit, myself?? No clue probably ended up being an important reflection, just my luck 🙈 Speaking of health, this is a helpful page (as always, double check info with RELIABLE NOT BIASED sources): https://www.instagram.com/unbiasedscipod/ [https://www.instagram.com/unbiasedscipod/] Let's keep the conversations going: https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311 [https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311] xoxo, lizzie 💕

My Health Journey - Part 1

I'll probably come back to edit this description again later, but for now: feel free to speed it up, but I decided to leave most of these 2 "episodes" more raw. It's hard to put it into words as it is let alone figure out how to coherently edit it, so I'm just going to show y'all the natural progression of trying to get my health story out there and all the emotion that goes into it. Keep all of that in mind for Part 2 especially. 😅 Speaking of health, a random lil tip I've been discovering this year for anyone else with fibromyalgia symptoms/anyone else in general: exercising can be extra painful for us so believe me, I understand the difficulty to get motivation but it does eventually help if you keep it up! Take advantage of the pool, if you can, while we still can! As crazy as this sounds, any aerobics even "dancing" (especially latin & belly dancing--just take my word for it) with strength training exercises in between in the pool is a great way to train balance for doing it on land (lol). And it makes you feel like a water bender! 😉 🌊 😂 But for real, it's probably the most gentle for inflamed joints and practically forces meditation so I highly recommend just giving it a try. Especially for my fellow water elements. 🧘🏼‍♀️ Like with singing, practice means PROGRESS, it does not have to be perfect--that just gets you stuck in your head & the best art of any kind is when you let go not overthinking it! As long as you're doing ANY of it YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO IMPROVEMENT (singing example: at least humming the notes to get closer to the right pitch, etc). Anywayssss... I told y'all this is as random as it gets. I wasn't exaggerating. :) Intro/Outro Song: Until We Get There by Lucius (yes, from New Girl 🥰). Please check out the song in its actuality! Recorded: March 2, 2023 and finished September 5, 2023 Let's keep the conversations going: https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311 [https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311] xoxo, lizzie 💋

with Cherrish & Sierra - Our College Lives at the University of Oklahoma and After

I will definitely be working on my anxiety (some of my random laughs 😅), the "yups" (a subconscious effort to confirm I'm listening but don't realize until listening back, I'm actually talking over y'all--I'm so sorry!), and any other mishaps as I get used to this whole podcasting stuff. There's a lot more to it than I realized! 😳 But, I'm so glad starting this gave us an excuse to get together to talk about these important topics I don't think we've ever even thought to talk about before and share them with y'all! Let's keep the conversations going: https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311 [https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311]Sierra & Cherrish -- I loved getting to reunite and laugh with y'all [virtually] again! Until we can in person 😊 Intro/Outro Song: Until We Get There by Lucius (yes, from New Girl 🥰). Please check out the song in its actuality! Recorded: February 4, 2023. xoxo, lizzie 💕

"Pilot" ;)

FUTURE EPISODES SHOULD BE SHORTER, I just stuffed A LOT of info into this one (and didn’t end up speeding up anything except the intro/outro music this time) lol. Tip I’ve learned: feel free to speed up the audio if you’d like the podcast to be faster (I usually go to 1.5x… if you can handle that lol—left that decision up to you). I’d advise NOT to listen right before you go to bed—these topics may keep your brain awake thinking. However you choose to listen, I hope you can connect the dots of the ideas I’m trying to get across. If not, or even if you could follow, feel free to continue the discussion here: https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311 [https://discord.com/channels/1089109562260459611/1089109562872844311] Intro/Outro Song: Until We Get There by Lucius (yes, from New Girl 🥰). Please check out the song in its actuality! Really feeling the second verse of its lyrics in regards to posting this… 😅 Sidenotes while listening through: I was saying I think rushing shouldn’t be going into freshman year and Casey, I meant to say your name in your shoutout too, I love you also! You may hear me subconsciously fiddling with a bobbie pin... sorry bout that #adhdprobz Cue Circle of Life nearing the hour mark I was trying to refer to Rihanna giving in-person people who paid so much a show not just tv viewers like Super Bowl performances usually focus on instead (great observation Sierra!) I couldn’t get SOS out of my head forever after that so I’m guessing that’s a sign how disappointed I was to not see that song included lol. And y’all!! I brought up the Selena and Justin thing weeks before the Hailey/Selena Tik Tok thing happened. Did I accidentally manifest that or something?! 🤯😂 Recorded: February 13, 2023. xoxo, lizzie 💋