Last updated: 10/21/24
Welcome to A Season of Learning. These author expertise and positional statement relates to https://www.aseasonoflearning.com.
Every blog has an about me page, but they don’t often disclose things that are very important for a reader to know and consider when reading a blog. In my full-time job, there’s an expectation that when there is an opportunity for a person’s expertise and lived experiences to affect the writing they are putting out, a positionality statement is also expected to occur. A positionality statement is a fancy term for telling you about my background and lived experiences and, thus, my potential biases that could influence my writing. I hope that in learning about me and why I write what I do you can understand what might also apply to your life and what you can decide would and would not work for you.
I am a married woman who has two young daughters. I work a professional full-time outside the house job and write this blog as a passion project. My primary job is outside of the food industry as well as being outside of the medical and allied health professions. I live in Southern California. I enjoy being outside and making health a priority in my life. Beyond my gluten-triggered IBS, I am a generally healthy middle-aged person.
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When I was first struggling to figure out my digestive issues, I could find people talking about gluten-free foods and their digestive issues on social media but not on blogs. When I looked at blogs, they were either mainstream medical sites that have valuable information but lack a personal connection or personal sites that don’t share where they found their information. My goals with this site are to be transparent and to help connect you to yummy gluten-free foods. It’s the sharing I saw on social media but not in blogs. I share my background to give context to my experiences, and my main goal of this blog is to offer encouragement and ease of access to anyone seeking gluten-free foods.
While our backgrounds and circumstances may vary, I hope my experiences can spark ideas or encourage you to explore options. For example, if you live somewhere else, you may have different grocery stores than I mentioned I go to. However, someone else in the comments may know of stores in your area. Please choose to consume the content that works for you. While many things in our lives dictate how we can live differently from one another we can still connect over shared experiences. In short, by disclosing my background and lived experiences, you can make better-informed decisions about what I share and whether it applies to your life.