Archive - girl not brave

Plot twist, I'm doing great

Healing, accepting, growing, building and I'm still bad, baby

Jun 7 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

February 2025

Re-opening Old Wounds

Putting an end to it, once and for all

Feb 6 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

October 2024

Call Your Mama, see if she wanna

Austin City Limits Music Festival has been a tradition for my Mom and I for a decade now.

Oct 25, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

June 2024

I'll always be unsatisfied

Finally leaving a job that didn't satisfy and why I can't go back

Jun 4, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

The forever wreckage

Imagining what I could have done instead is heartbreaking, as are so many things when you get a cancer diagnosis so young.

Jun 3, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

May 2024

Debt consolidation and the fragility of finances after cancer

May 31, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

The similarities between boat ownership and cancer

Financial wreckage of cancer vol. 1

May 30, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

Heartburn worse than hatch chili gravy and chicken fried steak

May 3, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

April 2024

One glimmer of hope

Dark times but it's working

Apr 14, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

Ready as we'd ever be

The little preparations needed for cold-capping

Apr 3, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

March 2024

Cold capping for the first time

Mar 7, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

Medicated into submission

The limbic system's unexpected survival method at 1st chemo

Mar 1, 2024 •

Rachael Ahrens Tolbert

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