Maya Marcotte
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Intimacy and Food Allergies – Part I
Trying to make it as an actress with anaphylactic peanut allergy came with a very hard lesson. I didn’t tell them about it and here’s what happened. Continue reading
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Allergies, Eczema and Emotions
Do we create our own allergic reactions? Is there more to the mind than we realize? Continue reading
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The Life-Changing App That'll Make You Throw All Your Makeup Out
An app that scans for chemicals in makeup and skincare? Yes, please! Continue reading
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A Childhood of Eczema and a Doctor I'll Never Forget
I survived over forty years of managing food allergies and eczema. Here is my first experience as a baby and the doctor who came to my rescue when I lived in Virginia. Continue reading
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Childhood Eczema and a Doctor I’ll Never Forget
I survived over forty years of managing food allergies and eczema. Here is my first experience as a baby and the doctor who came to my rescue when I lived in Virginia. Continue reading
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The End (Rebirth)
Some of you have been reading my blog since the first year Maya’s Happy Place was born back in 2009. All of you showed me how connected we are and took away the painful isolation of feeling like a ‘girl in the bubble.’ A couple of you called me out on my sense of entitlement and lashed out in anger at me after… Continue reading
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Can We Cure Our Own Food Allergies?
We all know there is no cure for IgE food allergies…if there were, the whole food allergy community would be on a long line to get it and this blog wouldn’t exist.However, we all did a silent double-take when not too long ago, we heard on the news about a boy with leukemia had a… Continue reading
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I HATE Summer — Living With Cholinergic Urticaria
I normally try to avoid complaining on social media or on my blogs but this is one topic I can’t keep quiet about. I don’t hate summer for no reason, trust me. Its not the tiny outfits that are way too small on the wrong body type or the bright happy colors that make my inner goth… Continue reading