How My Body Became a Hobby: A Positive Change Years in the MakingDescribe one positive change you have made in your life. When people ask me how long it took me to lose more than 100 pounds, I sometimes laugh a little before I answer. Because the honest answer is not six months. It is not one perfect year. It is not one clean, inspiring before-and-after story tied up with a bow. The honest answer is: a long time. If I really trace it back, this journey started years ago — with health scares, kitchen overhauls, diet trends, temporary success, life changes, pregnancies, setbacks, stressful seasons, and more attempts to “get it right” than I can probably count.

My body became a hobby — not a battleground. New on CherryCoBiz.
#CherryCoBiz #HolisticWellness #HealthJourney

A Different Kind of Learning When I think about what I learned in high school, the answer is not simple. Partly because I did not finish high school in the traditional sense. I dropped out in 1990. I should have been part of the Wheat Ridge High School class of 1994 in Colorado. At the time, I was still more girl than woman, but already beginning to feel something I would carry for years: the sense that I did not quite belong where I was.

A different kind of learning.

Some lessons only make sense years later.

#WritingCommunity #PersonalEssay #CherryCoBiz

The People Closest to the Ground Can Feel It First Credit to The Enemy From Within for offering grounded, on-the-road commentary that helped frame this reflection. Even where broader context matters, I appreciate the honesty and lived perspective behind this video. I recently watched a trucking commentary video that hit me harder than I expected. Not because every single observation in it can be independently verified in real time, and not because one driver’s perspective automatically proves an entire national trend, but because the voice behind it felt real.

Truckers are sounding the alarm.

My latest Reverb x V-Trucker post looks at fuel, freight strain, and the pressure hitting the American heartland.

#Trucking #FuelPrices #CherryCoBiz

Ancient Prophecy or Modern Script? A Civicus Reflection on Christian Nationalism, Christian Zionism, and the War We Keep Dressing Up as Destiny There is something deeply unsettling about watching modern war get narrated as ancient inevitability. Not analyzed.Not debated.Not mourned. Narrated. As though bloodshed were not a human decision but a prophetic appointment.As though escalation were not policy but destiny.As though history itself were waiting for our generation to stop thinking and start performing a script.

When war is sold as destiny, people become easier to sacrifice.
My latest Civicus reflection explores prophecy, power, and the danger of sacred language in modern conflict.
The planet is not a prop.
#Civicus #CherryCoBiz #ChurchAndState

The Shadow Layer: Astrology, Power, and Two Rabbit Holes Sometimes a video does more than make a point. Sometimes it opens a door. Recently, I watched Dan Waites of World Astrology Report, and his video introduced me to a branch of astrology I had not seriously explored before: the Hamburg School, also known as Uranian astrology. What caught my attention was not just the commentary itself, but the fact that it sent me down…

A video by Dan Waites of World Astrology Report sent me down two rabbit holes: one into Uranian astrology, and another into the deeper question of how symbolic systems try to name shadow, power, and what lives beneath the surface.

#Cerasina #Astrology #Reverb #CherryCoBiz

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Spent 24 hours in the cloud.

Came back with humility.

And a renewed appreciation for being human.

#AIThoughts #HumanVsMachine #CherryCoBiz

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Barbacoa with Intention The Sunday Bake & The Monday Pivot Sometimes you discover a dish. Sometimes you make it your own. And sometimes you’re halfway through cooking before you remember you “should” have documented every step. This was one of those nights. I don’t always stage the lighting.I don’t always capture every layer.Sometimes I just cook — and later realize it’s something worth sharing.

Barbacoa with Intention.
The Sunday Bake & The Monday Pivot.

Layered heat. Leftovers with purpose.
Comfort food that adapts to rhythm.

#MindfulCooking #HighProtein #ComfortFood #MealPrep #CherryCoBiz

YouTube Fab Five: Clifton Chilli Club There are food channels.And then there are endurance channels disguised as food channels. This final feature in the current YouTube Fab Five spotlight goes to Clifton Chilli Club — one of the world’s largest chili-focused YouTube communities, based in the United Kingdom and running strong since 2010. With nearly 800,000 subscribers and more than 300 million views, they’ve built an entire digital universe around one thing:

The burn doesn’t last forever.
But the story does.

Clifton Chilli Club closes out this round of the YouTube Fab Five — a community built on heat, endurance, and shared challenge.

#CliftonChilliClub #SpicyFood #YouTubeCreators #CherryCoBiz

Swedish Meatballs & Cabbage Steaks: A Real-Life Kitchen Win A CherryCoBiz Recipe/Reverb First — welcome if you’re new to CherryCoBiz, and welcome back if you’ve been walking this winding road with me these past few years. Life has me twisting in different directions lately. A new home. Appliance chaos. Website upgrades. Family health needs. Budget realignment. Intentional spending. Real-world logistics. And here’s the truth: Sometimes wellness looks like green smoothies and long walks.

Frozen meatballs turned into a real-life kitchen win.

Swedish meatballs + roasted cabbage steaks = balance, flexibility, and one very surprised picky eater.

Unexpected wins hit different.

#ComfortFood #IntentionalLiving #CherryCoBiz #FamilyMeals

Pride Was the Beginning. Protection Is the Work. Growing up, I remember hearing that I lived in the greatest country on Earth. That felt special. I loved the Fourth of July — the fireworks, the humid summer air, the way neighbors gathered outside as dusk settled in. As a child, it was about the pretty lights and time with family, but even then I understood we were celebrating something bigger.

I grew up believing I lived in the greatest country on Earth.

I still love this country — not the illusion of it, but the possibility of it.

Pride was the beginning.
Protection is the work.

#Patriotism #CivicDuty #Democracy #AmericanExperiment #CherryCoBiz

If My Life Had a Title… If someone were to write a biography about my life, I think it might be called: The Holistic Alchemist: Finding the Sacred in the Science of Self. Not because I have everything figured out. And certainly not because I’ve turned every hardship into gold. But because I’ve always been drawn to integration. I’ve never been satisfied with separating things neatly — science over here, spirit over there.

If my life had a title…

I think it would be about becoming.

What would yours be?

#WritingPrompt #LifeInProgress #CherryCoBiz

Growing Out of Fairy Tales: Why I No Longer Believe in “Happily Ever After” How Time and Marriage Changed the Way I See the World When I was young, I believed in “Mr. Right.”Not just hoped for him — expected him. I grew up in an environment shaped by the Cinderella story. Not always intentionally, but constantly. Movies, family expectations, cultural messages — they all taught some version of the same lesson: that love would arrive like a rescue mission, that one person would complete the story and make life finally settle into happiness.

Me leaving unrealistic expectations behind like…
Turns out growing up isn’t about losing belief in love — it’s about losing belief in fairy tales. Perspective changes everything.

#GrowingUp #Perspective #LifeLessons #SelfReflection #CherryCoBiz

If You’re Not Angry Yet, You’re Not Paying Attention A government turning inward. A people refusing to look away. There are moments in a country’s life when everything stops feeling theoretical.When danger shifts from something you read about to something you feel in your bones.When the line between “unthinkable” and “here” dissolves. This is one of those moments. I came across a video last night — shared by…

MINNEAPOLIS IS THE WARNING.
What’s happening right now isn’t politics — it’s a turning point.
Pay attention. Stay awake. Document everything.

#Minneapolis #OperationMetroSurge #ActiveWitness #CivilRights #CherryCoBiz

Showing Up for Myself: The Love Story That Matters Most A Moment I Felt Loved: The Day I Learned to Love Myself Good morning, and welcome—whether you’ve been part of this community for a while or you’re visiting CherryCoBiz for the very first time. Today’s writing prompt asks: Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved? I’ve shared many stories of being loved by others—especially my beloved Little Grandma Rose, whose warmth I honored in…

Showing up for myself has been the quiet love story that changed everything.
100 pounds down, but the real victory was learning to love the woman I already was.

#SelfLoveJourney #CherryCoBiz #WellnessWins #WomenSupportingWomen

Unmasking Pearl Davis A Reverb Reflection on Manufactured Traditions, Manufactured Outrage, and the Algorithm That Loves Them There’s a particular kind of confidence that comes from speaking loudly while saying very little. And few internet personalities embody this more fully than Pearl Davis — a woman whose rise in the “Manosphere” relies more on outrage algorithms than on substance, knowledge, or lived experience.

Unmasking manufactured “tradition.”
Calling out algorithm-driven outrage.
And reminding people that honesty, empathy, and consent will always outshine performative morality.

#Reverb #MediaCritique #GenderPolitics #RelationshipTruths #CherryCoBiz

The Hindsight of a Nervous System in Crisis Content Note: This essay discusses mental illness, addiction, family estrangement, and generational trauma. Please read with care. On schizoaffective disorder, systemic failure, and the long road from rage to clarity The question sounds simple until you apply it to real life. What could you do differently? Not to a recipe.Not to a career decision. But to mental illness.To addiction.

Sometimes clarity arrives years after the crisis.
This is a reflection on mental illness, generational trauma, and learning to speak with care instead of rage.

#Writing #MentalHealth #GenerationalTrauma #Healing #CherryCoBiz

Welcome to the In-Between What Are My Biggest Challenges? It’s 11:22 as I sit down to write this — and that feels worth noticing. Not because it’s mystical or predictive, but because it invites a pause. A moment to breathe before moving forward. I’ve always noticed patterns like that, not as signs to follow, but as gentle reminders to be present. And right now, presence feels important.

Welcome to the in-between.
Where nothing is finished, and everything is possible.
#InBetween #QuietGrowth #CherryCoBiz

Inside the Cage: Why the Manosphere Is Built on Loneliness, Fear, and the Illusion of Power I started this Reverb without even watching the full CNN segment yet — just scanning, listening, reacting — and immediately felt something snap into place. Young men are listening to pure garbage and calling it gospel. And then they wonder why women may not be interested in all that. Seriously? CNN takes a closer look at the manosphere — the echo chamber young men are calling “truth” while it quietly strips them of real connection, emotional growth, and common sense.

Men aren’t falling into the manosphere because they’re powerful — they’re falling because they’re lonely.
Fear fills the void, algorithms feed the anger, and the illusion of “power” takes over.

#Manosphere #Loneliness #Reverb #CherryCoBiz

When Truth Burns the Hands That Hold It The Epstein files are more than a scandal—they’re a reckoning. When truth burns the hands that hold it, we’re forced to see who protected predators and who stood for justice. This Reverb × Civicus reflection asks: how much corruption can a country tolerate before it stops pretending not to see?

Truth has a temperature—and right now, it’s melting the hands of those who tried to hide it. The Epstein files have reopened wounds America was too afraid to face. But when denial meets evidence, there’s only one thing left to do: let it burn. 🔥

#Reverb #Civicus #CherryCoBiz #EpsteinFiles #Truth

A Superiority Complex Wrapped in Insecurity: The Truth About Control in 2025 I love everything about The Bearded Beer Blog — the accent, the humor, the fire, and the absolute clarity. He said what so many of us have been thinking: it’s 2025, and somehow people are still obsessed with controlling everyone else’s lives. Trust me, I don’t want to be like you, and you definitely wouldn’t want to be like me. So why do people still treat individuality like a threat?

🌍 If your worldview is that fragile, it deserves to collapse.
💭 Some ideas need to break before they can open.
#Reverb #CherryCoBiz #Equality #Humanity #Empathy

🎧 Reverb: Reincarnation & The Existential Elk Inspired by the video “The Existential Elk Theory – The Darkest Philosophical Essay Ever Written” by Pursuit of Wonder 🌙 Introduction — The Cycle We’re Born Into When Peter Wessel Zapffe wrote The Last Messiah, he believed human consciousness had grown too heavy — that awareness itself would one day crush us. He compared our minds to the giant antlers of the extinct Irish elk: a marvel of evolution that became too big to sustain its own survival.

🦌 Reincarnation & The Existential Elk
What if the Irish elk never died in despair, but simply shed its antlers—and began again?
A reflection on Zapffe, consciousness, and the soul’s quiet cycle of renewal. 🌿

#ExistentialElk #Reverb #CherryCoBiz #ConsciousEvolution #Reincarnation #CycleOfTheSoul

December: The Month That Feels Like Home Daily writing prompt What's your favorite month of the year? Why? View all responses December has always been my favorite month—hands down. I love the simple things: the cold nights, the thick blankets, a cozy dinner, and that feeling of intentional hibernation that gives you permission to slow down. I love Christmas too—not the commercial kind, but the kind spent with loved ones, laughter, and food that feels like a hug.

December’s my month — cozy nights, warm hearts, and a little chaos wrapped in blankets. Our first Christmas in the new home feels extra special… and who knows, maybe Santa’s bringing a little adventure from Pandora. 🎮✨

#CherryCoBiz #CozySeason #DecemberMagic #HomeForTheHolidays

Dear Mr. Soros, About My Missing Check When asked who the most famous or infamous person I’ve ever met is, I realized I’ve never met George Soros — though if the internet is to be believed, we might as well share an HR department. Dear Mr. Soros, I’m writing to you today because, frankly, I’m getting a little concerned about my annual activist compensation. I hope this letter finds you well — or at least not too busy funding the global cabal I apparently work for.

Dear Mr. Soros,
My activist paycheck never arrived.

I’ve been defending democracy on a budget, and I think HR owes me a tote bag.

💡 A satirical open letter about myths, money, and the value of conviction.
#Civicus #CherryCoBiz #PoliticalSatire

The Paradox of the Fixed Frame Why Stability Was the Key to My Deepest Personal Shifts Hello, CherryCoBiz community — and a warm welcome to anyone new. We’re planting roots: our family is buying a home here in Springfield. A few months ago, I wrote about almost leaving in a post called “Dreaming of Where I Belong.” But when I weighed everything — my youngest son’s momentum in high school, our health, our finances, our peace — stillness weighed more than motion.

“The frame holds. I move.”
Stillness doesn’t mean stagnation — it’s where transformation learns to breathe. 🌿 #CherryCoBiz #QuietQuest #Stillness #Growth

✉️ Your Assumptions Are Wrong: A Letter to the Loud and the Closed-Minded Civicus – A Space for Awareness and Understanding Since I started writing about politics, health, and the world we live in, people have decided who I am—usually without reading past the headline. Most of them never even read past the headline. I’ve been labeled a Democrat, a liberal, a socialist — even an enemy to “their” version of America. The truth is simpler and more complicated at the same time: …

🕊️ Somewhere between red and blue, there’s truth.
I’m not a Democrat or a Republican — I’m an Independent who believes curiosity is stronger than loyalty, and freedom begins where assumptions end.

#Civicus #CherryCoBiz #IndependentVoice #CriticalThinking #Awareness #TruthMatters #OpenMind

An Open Letter to Kristi Noem: What Is Wrong With You? A Civicus × Reverb Reflection What is wrong with you? No, seriously — what is wrong with you? This letter exists because you just celebrated deportation with a meme and a pop hook, while families in this country are fighting to keep food on the table and health care within reach. That contrast isn’t politics. It’s moral failure. You’ve been nicknamed…

Power without compassion is just performance.
#TribalSovereignty #HumanRights #Civicus #Reverb #CherryCoBiz #TruthMatters #Leadership #Ethics #SouthDakota #IndigenousRights

The Illusion of Understanding: When Opinion Replaces Knowledge Reflections on Awareness, Accountability, and the American Mind For years, I mistook success for intelligence—believing anyone doing better must know more. That illusion, more than any other, helped many of us fall for Donald Trump. The TV show, the gold letters, the illusion of power—it all sold competence. But wealth has never equaled wisdom. The illusion wasn’t Trump himself; it was the belief that his privilege and bravado made him capable.

When we start valuing truth over tribe, we stop being spectators — and start being citizens again.

🧭 New on Civicus: The Illusion of Understanding: When Opinion Replaces Knowledge
#Civicus #CherryCoBiz #TruthMatters #CriticalThinking #StayInformed

The Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Found (and Kept) Good afternoon, Friends! Today’s WordPress writing prompt asks, “What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?” And I knew exactly what came to mind—a memory that reminds me how joy, value, and longevity can all come wrapped up in something wonderfully simple. Almost eighteen years ago, my friend and I were out garage sale hopping on one of those bright, breezy days that make you feel like the world is full of possibility.

Sometimes the coolest things we find aren’t shiny or new — they’re stories we’ve lived in, loved, and held onto. 🌼

I’m revisiting a favorite find from nearly two decades ago and reflecting on what it taught me about joy, simplicity, and mindful living. 💛

#CherryCoBiz #WritingPrompt #MindfulLivin

The ACA, COVID, and the Cost of Care: Clearing Up a Common Confusion Lately, I’ve been seeing and hearing a lot of confusion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the cost of healthcare. Some people think the only reason insurance prices are “low” right now is because of COVID-19 — but that’s not quite true. The pandemic certainly changed many things, but it isn’t what’s keeping ACA coverage affordable today. It’s more accurate to credit enhanced subsidies enacted through the…

🩺 Policy, Not Pandemic: The ACA didn’t get cheaper because of COVID—it’s federal policy, not the virus. As subsidies expire, millions could lose coverage. Clarity matters.

#ACA #HealthcareCosts #PolicyNotPandemic #Civicus #CherryCoBiz #HealthInsurance #PublicAwareness #TruthMatters

📰 EWU Bodycam – A Fab Five Spotlight: Seeing Truth in Motion Some YouTube channels are for escape. Others are for engagement. EWU Bodycam, a self-proclaimed news agency with over 2.6 million subscribers and nearly a billion views, forces you to engage with reality. Dedicated to factual storytelling, EWU Bodycam delivers real police bodycam footage with thoughtful narration and context. The goal? To educate the public, foster transparency, and offer viewers an unfiltered view of the human decisions that shape justice, tragedy, and redemption.

👁️ Awareness matters — even when it’s hard to watch.
EWU Bodycam shows us the truth one frame at a time.
#EWUBodycam #ExploreWithUs #CherryCoBiz #FabFive #Accountability #Awareness