Category: comeback
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Dream in Color
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Dreams never die; they may morph, but they never die. My dream of being a top IFBB fitness competitor has transitioned into a new journey into the word of CrossFit. Knee injuries and surgeries have retired me out of the IFBB as a pro fitness competitor–My body cannot take the gymnastics tumbling anymore. However, my…
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Yesterday: Friend or Foe
Life offers an endless range of opportunities for success and failure, courage and cowardice, and survival and victimization. Some experiences are carried from one juncture to the next and influence latter outcomes, but other experiences are better left behind in a corner of our memory which has no control over our tomorrow. Perhaps it is a…
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One Dream Closer
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Friends, First, I must apologize for such a long absence–not that I am disillusioned that my silence affected your life, but it did mine, I miss writing. Regardless, let’s play catch up. The last three years has been consumed with pursuing a dream: the law. My passion for the law began long before my passion…
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Overcome Loss
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in comeback, decisions, dedication, dreams, failure, God’s plan, hope, LeslieRae, LeslieRae decisions, loss, love, success, worryPain grips dreams and hopes until the life is gone and the only thing that is left is a memory of what could have been. I don’t always make good decisions, but I make the best ones I can, and I live with each. Regret lurks around every corner beckoning be back, beckoning blame, beckoning…
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Weighing in for a New Start
Taking your life seriously means taking all aspects of it with pride, the inside and the outside. An education and what you know is very important, it will keep you in the door, but what gets you through the door is who you know AND what you look like, not just on paper. The visual…
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The Next Leaf
Having a plan is only successful if it is flexible. There are few and far between that play out like planned. Glitches and detours are so common, they are expected; you have to know how to deal with them when they arise. You may not always know what to do, or do the right thing,…
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Another Step
Visiting the doctor yesterday, it suprised me that I am only 7weeks out from surgery. Man, I thought it had been A LOT longer than that! But, no, not even 2months in to a 12-month recovery. However, I am walking almost normal! I am doing limited cardio! I am doing modefied exercises! Modified, meaning two…
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The Next Day
I am officially six weeks out from hopefully my last surgery! I have been off crutches for two 🙂 Physical Therapy is just starting to make the shift from purely painful to semi-productive. In fact, today was the first day I left thinking “I could have done more exercises” instead of “I wonder if I…
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How do you go on
This morning, during my tax appointment, my accountant asked, “how do you do it? how do you go on surgery to surgery?” I told him it is easier to come back from than a broken heart or a broken home. True it is hard and scary to go back to the very thing that hurt…
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Done Competing?
I have had so many people ask me if I am done…”with what?” I ask…”competing,” they respond. It is true, I have had my third knee surgery in three years and yes, I have another one to go. It is also true that I have come back after two surgeries; I have overcome odds that…