Author: pamporter2020

Alopecia Awareness month

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How many have things in common with your siblings? Well ever since I met my siblings by my dad, there was one that I was told I look alike the most and now that we’re both adults we look alike even more. She also has Alopecia and is now brave enough to rock her baldness. On day 2 of Alopecia awareness month here is the interview we did when I was visiting her in Mississippi. Please click the YouTube link https://youtu.be/27jM1P__Tm8. Also while you’re there, please subscribe to my sister’s YouTube channel for future videos by her. Feel free to leave a comment.

Remember to always find a reason to Smile through it all.

Alopecia Awareness Month

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Today is day 1 of 30 of Alopecia Awareness month. Alopecia is a hair loss condition that a lot live with. Each week I am going to address a different type of Alopecia. Alopecia is what I live with and I have learned to love my bald self. It took some time, but I don’t regret losing my hair. I talk about my journey in my book. You can order it here. Smilethroughitall.org

Always find a reason to Smile through it all.

Sorry for the delay

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I’m sorry I have not been blogging as much as I should, but starting tomorrow I will try to get back to blogging more often. I appreciate all that’s here. Let’s start some decisions. Hope to hear from some soon. Take care and Remember to always find a reason to Smile through it all.

Children

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Children will bring a lot to your life. Children will also teach you a lot you never knew you knew. They will bring out the creative side in you. They will also bring out the protector, the mentor, the cook, the scholar, the discipliner and the kid side of you out. Enjoy your kids and teach them the rules of life. Show them the good and the bad of life. Trust they will use the info for good more than bad. Support your children in the direction they want to go. As long as it’s not harming them or others. If you can’t have kids just know there’s plenty of kids out there waiting and wanting someone to call mom and dad. So choose to adopt a child and all will be happy.

Remember to Always find a reason to Smile through it all.

Happiness

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What is happiness?

Happiness is a state of well being and contentment: joy a pleasurable or satisfying experience.

Wikipedia says it’s used in the content of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It is also used in the context of life satisfaction subjective well-being, eudaimonia flourishing and well-being.

Only you can make yourself happy. Others can contribute to your happiness, but it has to start with you. If you’re not happy search inside of yourself to find out why you’re not happy and change that feeling.

Always remember to find a reason to Smile through it all.

Suicide

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What’s is Suicide?

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death.

There’s a lot of reasons one might think taking their own life is better than someone doing it or just dying naturally, but the people you’re going to leave behind won’t see it that way. It’s just better to try and talk to someone and figure out why you want to leave this earth so soon. Life can look bad at the moment, but it could look so much better in that same moment if you just choose to live. Let nature take it’s course and die when your body says it’s time and not before. There’s so much to live for and you just have to try and figure out how to get back to that happy place. If you need someone to talk to here’s a 24/7 hotline number: 800-273-8255.

Remember to always find a reason to Smile Through It All.

Self Love

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What is Self Love?

An appreciation of one’s worth or virtue.

Don’t be afraid to love yourself more than you love others. Sometimes it’s needed to keep your sanity. If you are giving more of yourself than others is giving to you, you might be draining yourself and won’t be good to anyone.

When you’re in an abusive situation, you have to love yourself more than you love your abuser. Or if there’s kids involved, at least love them enough to get away from your abuser and keep all of you safe. The abuser don’t really care about you or love you if they’re abusing you. So take some you time and make you happy. Time to be selfish.

Remember to Always find a way to Smile Through It All.

What is Alopecia?

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Alopecia is loss of hair from the scalp or any part of your body. Very common (more than 3 million cases per year in US). Treatments can help manage condition, no known cure. Often requires lab or imaging. Can last several months or years. Family history may increase likelihood for some types.

There’s several different types of Alopecia (Alopecia Areata, Alopecia Totalis, Alopecia Universalis, Androgenetic Alopecia, Postpartum Alopecia, Traction Alopecia, Alopecia Barbae, Scarring Alopecia and Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia to name a few) which your doctor will tell you which one you have.

You can go through different emotions with losing your hair. Especially with knowing it may never come back, but once you get use to the fact that you’re going to be bald, your confidence can go through the roof. You’ll see yourself as beautiful and others will see it too. Yes, some will think this or that about you or assume you have Cancer, but if you develop the confidence you need, no matter their thoughts, their stares, their words, you’ll always see yourself as beautiful.

So be the beautiful bald self you know you are and Always find a reason to Smile Through It All.

Domestic Violence

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What is Domestic violence to you?

Domestic violence comes in many different forms: physical, mental, verbal, sexual, financial, spiritual, control to name a few.

Don’t always think it’s just physical, mental abuse hurt worse than physical since it takes longer to heal from. Scars can heal in days or weeks, mental abuse may take days, weeks, months or even years to heal from. Anything at any given moment could trigger your past abuse.

Try to figure out if you’re being abused in any way and correct the situation by either talking to the person or just leaving the situation if talking doesn’t work, but try to leave safely. Make a plan and work the plan, but make sure you’ve truly had enough so that you don’t go back to a toxic situation. If you need help or someone to talk to, here’s a 24/7 hotline for domestic violence (800-799-SAFE (7233)).

Always try to find a reason to Smile Through It All.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.