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stephanieromer · 9 months

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My head looks weird, but trying to see the tree in the background. 😆 The last 2yrs have been Best Christmases in my adult life! 🥂 ...and will keep getting better! So thankful for the people in my life! 🙏

*family & friends pics I keep privately*

Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and looking fwd to New Years! Remember to set REALISTIC SMART GOALS - not goals that will have you giving up from the pressure after a month. 💪

Here are a few of my New Years Goals:

I will not be eating more or less.

I will not be drinking anything different - except less coffee, but that's an ongoing addiction and struggle - no deadline for that lol.

I will not be expecting any big life changes outside of my own control.

I will not be working out more or less.

I will not be cleaning more or less.

I will not be taking care of my health more or less...unless something unexpected of course. #chdlife

I will not be getting anymore certifications or degrees unless an opportunity presents itself as a result of my never-ending relentless work on myself and future -- but not striving for anymore at this time.

I will not be seeking more or less friendships - but always open to more!

I love everyone, that's my biggest problem in life lol-Always!

WHY am I not striving for anything "new" this year outside of my continued dreams with my career & Mama life?

Because my personal daily life is a CONSTANT FLUCTUATION of all of the above and I learned through my Health, Empowerment, and Trauma Coach schooling, work, and certification programs that I refuse to ever set myself up for failure again because it puts me into a depression and dark place of hating myself, my CHD Life, and takes me away from God and being grateful. SO my New Years Goals are to HAVE NONE. 🥳

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stephanieromer · 9 months

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Chapter 34 of QUIETING THE CLOCK is a compelling, powerful story of a teen girl born with half of a heart called HLHS, along with 4 other Congenital Heart Defects. Her invisible disability consumes her life and destroys her mental health, with no break as she is abused repeatedly, some weeks every single night, for 11 years.

Modeling was one of her outlets, and gave her an ounce of self esteem, until Modeling Agents told rejected her due to her heart surgery scars and varicose veins.

Only a few local modeling stores allowed her to represent their clothing, and even then - had to be covered from head to toe and dressed so differently from the other girls, as in excerpt and photo below.

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I represent one of thousands of Models with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities.

We deserve to be in Ads, Commercials, TV Shows and Movies as much as health / able-bodied people, to show our future children, teens, and adults that IT'S OKAY TO HAVE A "FLAWED" BODY. In fact, it should be the new norm.

Stephanie Romer

Quieting the Clock

Author | Advocate | Survivor | Coach

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