Kristen Howells

Mental Health and the Sidekick Life

August 26, 2019

It is no secret to those around us, I suffer from horrible anxiety. The events in this world cause it to become even more heightened when in public settings, so how is it that I survive through this supportive wife life?

I don’t always.

I never sugar coat anything in my life anymore, not since I started having panic attacks in my thirties. So, when I say that I am not always a supportive wife along his entrepreneurial journey, it is just me being honest. I can’t always be supportive in person or the present wife he may need me to be, but he still sticks by my side even when I am not by his.

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Holy Health Insurance, Batman

August 19, 2019

There have been so many things over the last year that I have worried about as we prepared for Ian to leave corporate America. Health insurance was probably always at the top of my list and now I know why.

How the hell does anyone navigate the medical world without a medical degree!?

I have taken on many roles as we navigate this endeavor but I never wanted to be a benefits specialist, but now I seem to be one.

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A New Adventure

August 12, 2019

Well, we have been keeping a pretty big secret for a while, and since it means a bit of a change to our household it is finally time to share our exciting news with the world!

A few years ago Ian and I started to plan for him to step away from his full-time job and focus on growing his own business.

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The Lucky and Unlucky

August 3, 2019

One person is not lucky and another unlucky in life, luck is simply preparation and opportunity. If you are someone who continually says you are unlucky in life, maybe it is simply because you have not prepared for an opportunity – the good or the bad.

Nothing about what one person has and another does not have in life has anything to do with luck.

Hear me out on this one –

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You’re Just a Housewife?

July 22, 2019

A little look back on how we got to this point in our marriage. Now almost a decade out from our I Do’s, I thought I would share a post about what it really is like to live the, you’re just a housewife, life and my realizations over the last few years.

I can say with 100% confidence that our marriage is stronger than it has ever been, he is my person who gets me and understands just what I sacrificed for us to get to this point.

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