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  • Things I Didn't Ask My Breast Reduction Surgeon That I Should Have, But Didn't Know To
  • My Behavioral and Psychological Changes After My Breast Reduction
  • My First Bra Fitting After My Reduction
  • My Nexplanon Experience: Why I Removed it After Four Months
  • My Three Year Breast Reduction Anniversary
  • My Breast Reduction 5 Years Later
  • Why I quit Cheer leading, and Why I Don't Want My Children to be Cheerleaders
  • My Breast Reduction
  • 5 Things That Changed After My Breast Reduction
  • The "Right" Reasons To Get a Breast Reduction
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    Simple Life Series

    How to Write a Letter and get a Response

    September 5, 2020 /

    Everyone writes letters but does everyone actually know how to write a letter? The short answer is that letter writing is a genre in its own right and many people don’t actually know how to write letters. I’m not saying there is a wrong or a right way to write letters. I am saying that there are a few conventions you should follow when writing your letters. What makes a letter a letter? Some people think if you send something to someone via snail mail (USPS), it’s automatically a letter. This is not true. While there are many mail genres that seem the same, they are all distinct in specific…

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    How to Say “No” to Selfish Friends

    October 21, 2018
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    My Skin Care Routine After Nexplanon.

    August 29, 2020 /

    My current skin care routine to treat acne scars caused by my Nexplanon Implant.

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    April 3, 2019
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    Learn How To Say and Practice Saying “No”

    November 6, 2019
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    Make it a Habit: How To Consume Media Critically and Carefully

    July 22, 2019
  • Breast Reduction Series

    My Breast Reduction 5 Years Later

    July 8, 2020 /

    I had a breast reduction five years ago and this is how I feel about it now.

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    The “Right” Reasons To Get a Breast Reduction

    September 18, 2019
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    Things I Didn’t Ask My Breast Reduction Surgeon That I Should Have, But Didn’t Know To

    August 12, 2019

    My Three Year Breast Reduction Anniversary

    July 8, 2018
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    My Nexplanon Experience: Why I Removed it After Four Months

    June 28, 2020 /

    Warning: slightly graphic image of a wound, under a bandaid, but still a wound I got the Nexplanon Implant and had it removed four months later Due to my inability to access birth control as it was prescribed to me (prescribed for continuous use for mood and migraines) at any pharmacy where I previously lived (rural, isolated town). I opted to try out the Nexplanon hormonal birth control implant as a last ditch effort to get the hormones my body needed. I had the Nexplanon implanted October 18, 2019 and I had it removed January 30, 2020: just a little over four months. I did this for a variety of…

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    September 7, 2018
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    December 31, 2018
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    September 28, 2018
  • Love Yourself,  Mental Health Series

    I Tricked Myself into being Comfortable With My Body

    June 21, 2020 /

    I tricked myself into loving my body using a variety of methods and steps. I say tricked, but I really mean I trained myself to look at and think about my body in neutral and positive ways. Its not easy and I have a long ways to go but I can confidently say I don’t hate what I see in the mirror anymore (and haven’t for a while) and the mirror was a really important part of learning to love my body. Now as a disclaimer because I don’t want people in the comments saying “But Brette, you’re a hypocrite! You’ve had plastic surgery!” and they would be kind of…

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    A Guide to Complaining When You and Everyone You Know is Emotionally Exhausted

    April 22, 2020 /

    I don’t know about you, but I am emotionally exhausted. The global covid-19 pandemic is emotionally exhausting as much as it is scary. And if you are trying to be responsible and stay informed, the news updates everyday can be overwhelming. I have decided to go about my days expecting that everyone I know feels exactly the way I do (regardless of if they do or not). So what do you want to do when you are emotionally exhausted, lonely, and scared? You might want to scream and never stop screaming. You might want to escape to the nearest forested area, lie down, let the moss claim you, and become…

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    I Moved to Increase My Access to Opportunities.

    January 8, 2020 /

    It’s been a minute since I last wrote or published anything for Brette’s Bliss because I’ve been moving (and a few other factors). I decided to move for a variety of reasons, primarily for more career opportunities. As I wrote in my “I wasn’t prepared for life after college” post, finding a job after graduation has been incredibly difficult and I know I could attribute that to a lack of industry in the location I was living in and the distance between me and the jobs I was applying for. I haven’t had a job interview since September 2019! To say that sucks is an embarrassing understatement. Now while moving…

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    November 17, 2018

    Thank You Letters are Important!

    August 17, 2018
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    Learn How To Say and Practice Saying “No”

    November 6, 2019 /

    In the past I have talked about how to say no to selfish friends ; but that’s no easy feat. In the post I talked about clear ways to tell your friends “no” without saying “no” and when to evaluate and communicate in a relationship where you feel you are being used by a selfish or toxic friend. Sometimes learning how to just say the word “no” is  the real challenge, but you also need to practice using “no.” A lot of us feel that the word “no” makes us disagreeable and may lead to confrontation.  A lot of us have been in relationships and situations where our “no” was disrespected,…

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    Becoming a Good Enough-ist

    September 11, 2019

    Phone Addiction Update: Week three

    September 15, 2018
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    Mental Health Series

    Getting Motivated: How to Make Tiny Changes in Your Life to Get Back the Motivation You Lost

    October 30, 2019 /

    I have not posted in a while. I lost the motivation to write, edit, make images, and post. Everyday I thought, "you should work on your blog." It only takes a few hours a week to create one post, why not just do it? The answer was simple, I didn't want to. I lost my motivation.

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    I Wasn’t Prepared for Life After College, but This is What I’m Doing About it

    September 25, 2019 /

    I just graduated! Actually, I graduated back in August (Like I said I would in my graduation post here). It’s been over a month now and I will be honest, life after graduating is not what I thought it would be, while also exactly like I thought it would be. I used to be scared of life after graduating from university, then I was excited for it as it got closer. Now I’m feeling a little lukewarm about graduating. I’m excited that I don’t have to go back to school this fall and that I can now start working full time, make money, start a career, and still have more…

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