the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

Miranda Herring

  • it is not our weekend.

    Yesterday morning I learned that my friend Amy’s husband passed away and I am just heartbroken for her and her daughter and the rest of their family. Some things I will never understand. I can’t imagine trying to deal with all that she has with medical issues that her husband has been suffering from for… Read more

  • let’s all say it together now: “i have no idea.”

    A few months ago, Andrew Stoecklein, the senior pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California, committed suicide at age 30, leaving behind his precious wife Kayla, their three young sons, and his mother and two siblings. Prior to his death, he had been struggling with depression and anxiety and had just returned to the… Read more

  • oh, the anxiety.

    I can’t sleep tonight. The anxiety disorder that plagues me more often than I care to admit is running amok and I am having the worst time trying to get a handle on it. As y’all know, I’ve had the flu-y flu flu – and it’s lingering. My temp continues to randomly shoot up –… Read more

  • my spoonie christmukkah 2018 hopefully helpful gift giving guide <3

    So, y’all, the flu still has me Laid. Out. But I actually made it to the shower yesterday in anticipation of the SEC Championship Game – even though I still felt like Hale – and I was super excited: And this whole getting ready thing turned out to be a MAJOR overdoing it. Henry and… Read more

  • freaking. flu.

    The freaking flu again, y’all. 😦 Where I used to be totally “immune” to it (for lack of a better way to say it),  as in I could work with patients with it every day and not catch it for literally YEARS, it is apparently my Kryptonite now. And I’m starting to settle in and… Read more

  • so so many gratitudes.

    It’s Thanksgiving morning and I just woke from a long-ish winter’s nap (five or so hours?) and I’m sitting here next to a snoring Wonderpup and we are all wrapped up in our toastys because it’s actually cold this morning (I love it when cold holidays actually are – never a sure thing in Alabama,… Read more

  • letting go and working through.

    The past two days have been filled with working on lots of things for my wellness practice. I began yesterday with making lists, first of things I needed to gather from Apple Radio – because no great work can be accomplished without the proper tunage 😉 – and then of the books I needed to… Read more

  • ladies, alcohol addiction is drowning us.

    Yesterday, this article was published in USA Today with all sorts of truly terrible news related to alcohol addiction, particularly in women: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/11/16/alcohol-deaths-emergency-room-increase-middle-aged-women-addiction-opioids/1593347002/ PLEASE take a few minutes to read it if you can. There are several things in it I feel like I must talk about, that have been heavy on my heart since… Read more

  • lots of news – and a lil’ snow!!! :)

    I have so many things I want to tell y’all. . . and I will. But, first, here’s the headline in my world today. . . I went to sleep – a full 24 hours of chemo coma, more or less. . . And woke up to (a lil’ bit of) SNOW!!!! I am VERY excited… Read more

  • i think i’ll remember this past week as the week that everything changed.

    Just this past Halloween – a couple of weeks ago – I shared this picture of myself, standing in my costume, ready to go with Sara and Henry and the rest of our bunch for a little bit: That night, if you had seen me walk, it would have been VERY slow – and I… Read more