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The Mental Load

Leave a Comment / Life / Geri Elliott

How can something so invisible feel so heavy. I started questioning why my brain was feeling so broken at the end of the day. Why, by the time I needed to get through the last few hours before bedtime, I was losing the ability speak in full sentences or even remember the names of my […]

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A Tapestry of generations

Leave a Comment / Life, Motherhood / Geri Elliott

The Thread that connects all of us. Two years ago, my son had to put together his family tree for school. It only went back as far as his great grandparents, and it really got me thinking – I barely knew any of the family members past that branch on my side of the tree.

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Becoming Mom – The 2nd Shift

2 Comments / Motherhood / Geri Elliott

Established since 2016 When I look at them, I still can’t believe that they are mine. When I became a mom, I didn’t just give birth to two human beings, I literally became a new version of myself, both times. It has been the most rewarding but at the same time, the hardest role I

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Technology: Then vs. Now

2 Comments / The Middle Chapter / Geri Elliott

From dial-up days to digital overload. Is it just me, or have we started living at the speed of light!? I still remember having a landline in my childhood home. I had this one friend, bless her – she would remember to call me every year on my birthday, without fail. I would stand in

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My Sobriety Experiment

2 Comments / The Middle Chapter / Geri Elliott

I thought it would be fun to document my sober experiment thus far. How things have been going, why I decided to stop and what I have observed and learnt so far. Follow along, I’ll do more update posts along the way.

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I’m not my season.

Leave a Comment / Life, The Middle Chapter / Geri Elliott

Growth, change and new beginnings Overnight, my tub of coconut oil has changed from a liquid to a more solid state. It feels like Spring was just yesterday and now, Summer is already over. I can feel a change in the air. The cooler mornings, the earlier sunsets. Summer has been filled with so much

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Welcome to the quiet shift

2 Comments / The Middle Chapter / Geri Elliott

My very own Blog! What an extraordinary idea! It is a place to share and connect. It is a place to keep all of the treasures that fill my mind. I do have so many thoughts on so many things. I’m so excited to see where this takes me, a true passion project, a way

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