I haven’t written in awhile. Or rather, I haven’t written anything to share. Things are just so… inconceivable. (And I’m sure we all just imagined Princess Bride). Lately it feels like nothing I add adds value. Writing, lecturing, discussing, it all just feels like… fiddling while the world burns. There’s nothing I will say thatContinue reading “More Than Humans”
Category Archives: Stress Management
Quiet Time
I’ve taken some quiet time lately. Saying less, listening more. unplugging and plugging back in, time to think and wonder to myself. It’s been a nice respite from my standard reflect-and-pontificate repertoire. We even snuck in a quick overnight camping trip. And I hardly posted about it! It was a glorious quiet recharge. Sunshine, freshContinue reading “Quiet Time”
We Can’t Bully Ourselves into Better
We can’t hate our way through healing. It doesn’t work that way.
The Personal, Political, and Practicing ImPerfectionism
I, like many of us, have often let my perfectionism prevent me from STARTING. Things pile up around me because I can’t just do them, I have to do them RIGHT and I can’t do it right now, so it waits. It can fester. I, like many of us, am learning that anything worth doingContinue reading “The Personal, Political, and Practicing ImPerfectionism”
Ego
The WORST I was listening to a woman I admire and she said something that landed so hard I have to share it. She said that she can’t say she had “low self-esteem,” because she had “no self-esteem.” And that part I’d heard before and nodded along with, but then she went on to remindContinue reading “Ego”
I am tired and Do Not Know Where the Halloween Decorations are.
I should be decorating for Halloween right now. I am usually decorating for Halloween by now. But I am not. I am tired and I do not know where the Halloween decorations are. I am tired and do not know where the Halloween decorations are because 569 days ago I came home from work andContinue reading “I am tired and Do Not Know Where the Halloween Decorations are.”
Pretty Good Ugly 