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Melissa Hrbcek

@melissa_ramblinrose

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A journey of many layers. Livin my best life while 🧭 Parkinsons. Mission of H♡PE ✨️leave lasting legacy 4 others who will follow in our footsteps. 🕊

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That's not something I give away anymore.

I love hard, and I love big. I used to believe it was a curse. Until I learned that living a life with no boundaries is a life where you give your peace away.

Changing my mindset.

Unfortunately, I learned that "the people who become frustrated with your boundaries are the same people who benefitted from you having none." Hardest lesson, but I've chosen my peace.

I choose me. ♡

Thank you, @jaemi.pierson & @wordsofajay

#faith #livingmybestlife #grief #selflove #beyourself #perfectlyimperfect #yopd taken in Sanilac County by @melissa_ramblinrose

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These are experiences I pray we all are able to grow through. Growth is amazing and is necessary for optimal health and happiness. ✨️

Endless ♡,
Melissa

#journey #growth #parkinsonslookslikeme #happiness #love #behind #makesomeonesmile #bethesunshine🌞 taken in United States by @melissa_ramblinrose

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I Like YOU for Always, I Love You Forever ❤️
#nevergiveup #youarestrong #youhaveapurpose #ourworldneedsmoreofyou #iloveyou #improudofyou #neversettle #bepatientwithyourself #yourintuitionisyoursuperpower #alwaysbeyourself #youaremysunshine #bethesunshine🌞 by @melissa_ramblinrose

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A Sunshine 🌞 Note from ME to YOU.

People expect you to grieve differently when there's been a complicated relationship. It's incredibly bold to believe that the death will not impact someone.

#dobetter #grief taken in United States of America by @melissa_ramblinrose

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There are two types of hurt people. Hurt people who hurt people... and hurt people who choose to love people anyway.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing you can do with your pain is make sure it ends with you.

I hope we're all given the chance to give someone the kindness and dignity we all deserve.

Still Melissa. Still here. Still not done.
#parentalalienationawareness #narcissistsurvivor #shadowlife by @melissa_ramblinrose

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Seven days. I didn't know it was humanly possible to feel this many layers of grief at once — one on top of another, before I'd even caught my breath from the last.

I keep coming back to Angela Davis this week:

"I am no longer accepting things I cannot change... I am changing things I cannot accept."

Somewhere in the middle of all of it, I've also been noticing who's showing up in my life right now, and who's quietly stepped out of it. Both have taught me something. I'm grateful — for the ones who stayed, and honestly, for the clarity the ones who left gave me too.

Still figuring out which parts of this week I just have to sit with, and which parts I don't.

Still Melissa. Still here. Still not done.

#mytruth #parentallienation #estranged #narcissistsurvivor by @melissa_ramblinrose

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Some days the fight isn't in the standing...

It's in the setting down.

The shield. The armor. The performance of okay.

Even warriors rest their wings.

Still Melissa. Still here. Still not done.

#HearMyQuietness #MakeTheRestTheBest #StillStanding #yopd #parkinsonslookslikeme by @melissa_ramblinrose

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I've had a front row seat to human behavior lately... not by choice.

DBS doesn't ask permission before it sits you down. Still working on programming here. So if my words come out slower, or my body doesn't cooperate the way you remember... bear with me. I'll get there. Just wait till I'm fully reprogrammed to that sweet spot for myself. Bawahaha!

But once you're there, watching instead of performing, you learn things.

You learn who takes your symptoms personally... like your body is doing something to them.

You learn who talks to my husband like I've left the room. Still here. Still listening. Still running the show up here. 🤪

And you learn, with a little dark humor, exactly who in the room could use some help regulating their own... while I'm the one with hardware installed for mine. Ha.

Unfortunately, the people who've known me longest are somehow the slowest to update the picture.

Luckily...

I'm still looking for the good in people. It's just not always the case with human nature.

Still Melissa. Still here. Still not done.

#MakeTheRestTheBest #OutsmartingChaos #HearMyQuietness #yopd #DBS taken in Michigan by @melissa_ramblinrose

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Two years ago today, I celebrated a major life victory: getting back on my bicycle after five years of it sitting in storage. It was a milestone won through DBS, sweat, and tears. 🚲

Looking back now, what makes that memory so beautiful isn't just the ride itself—it’s who was standing right there beside me. They witnessed the struggle, felt the excitement, and shared a joy that words can barely describe.

People, timelines, and circumstances may change, but the gift of who was present with me in that moment is something no one can ever take away. That shared bond is permanently etched in my heart, fueling my strength as I continue to take life one day, and one pedal stroke, at a time. ✨️ 🤍

#ParkinsonsAwareness #DBS #Gratitude #SharedMoments #YOPD by @melissa_ramblinrose

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Each of us makes a choice every single day: Do we want to fill the buckets of others or drain them?
#prayeroftheweek #prayer by @melissa_ramblinrose

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People say I'm deep. 🙄

And I've imagined it... sweeping that under the rug. Dimming it down. Making myself a little more comfortable for the room.

But I'm not wired like that.

Here's what I know now... you don't earn strength by trying to do everything alone. Support isn't a weakness. It's survival. Build your team before you exhaust yourself trying to become an expert at everything.

That's where community comes in.

It took me a long time to learn that. Longer than it should have.

Let's just say the household I grew up in wasn't exactly handing out permission slips for vulnerability...

So I had to unlearn a lot. And relearn even more. And it cost me. In ways I'm still accounting for. 😉

But here's the thing nobody told me that I'm telling you now...

"Your capacity is allowed to change."

Needing more help than you used to isn't failure. It's not weakness. It's just honest. And some seasons of life — some diagnoses, some losses, some Wednesdays — they require more than you can carry alone.

Two decades of Parkinson's taught me that. This disease doesn't negotiate with pride.

So if my depth makes you uncomfortable... I understand. Truly.

But if something I say lands in a place you thought nobody else could reach...

Pull up a chair. That's exactly why I'm still here. 💛

Still Melissa. Still here. Still not done.

#HearMyQuieness #MakeTheRestTheBest #Parkinsons #YOPD #community by @melissa_ramblinrose

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❤️ 🕊 💙
#prayer #prayeroftheweek by @melissa_ramblinrose

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