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Trigger Warning: Mention of Domestic Violence (no details), mention of Serial Killers (no details) Driving back from a weekend in Scottsdale this morning with the music off and the air conditioner blasting on high, I remembered the triumph of finally getting away from the now ex husband whose behavior was unthinkable. It wasn’t a marriage…
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You know those people you follow for years on social media? The ones who inspire you to make actual changes to your everyday habits? The ones you will probably never actually speak to unless you decide to be thoroughly audacious? Yeah. One of those in my life was Ashley Kaltwasser, GOAT of the Bikini Division…
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I I was inadvertently shamed into exercise by my sister and cousins. One evening I found myself in the hot tub with my older sister who had just come down from a bikini competition and a slew of my cousins, all of whom were undeniably jacked. And I was what they call skinny fat. They…
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Life is about becoming stronger whether we like it or not. I don’t think I ever asked to become stronger, but today I am a business owner times three, a single mother of two children with no child support or co parenting, a fit model competitor, a volunteer in the local jail, and the list…
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One of the key purposes of Chez Palafox is to help and inspire people to overcome the things that most weigh them down. To that end, I wanted to do a series of things I have personally wrestled with and overcoming including suicidal tendencies, depression, PTSD (I’m healing), crippling anxiety, emotional eating, the binge/purge phenomenon…
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Trigger warning: While this is not meant to be a gruesome post, just apply virtually every trigger warning imaginable here. It ends on a positive note and a call to action. I was seventeen when he proposed. Shy and unsure by nature, bullied by adults around me to accept, knowing I didn’t love him, but…
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One of the most profound things I’ve ever heard was in jail. I don’t refer to incarcerated people as inmates. They are my friends. They wear orange, they come from different backgrounds, speak different languages, and they are often genuinely deep, insightful people. And I love spending time with them. I teach a couple of…
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Sometimes our souls are made for luxury when our external circumstances don’t allow the conventional high end vacations, massive house and dedicated butler. But why do we crave these things in the first place? What are we really trying to achieve? Are we trying to feel “enough” or is our main focus to prove to…
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I had the extraordinary opportunity to live in both hyper wealthy atmospheres and far more humble ones and making the transition from an area in which my family was seen as invaluable leaders to moving to the land of country clubs and designer labels where my handmade clothes became a cause for bullying and embarrassment taught me survival skills that…
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