Category: lifestyle
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Calm Down With This Quick Stretch
When we get tense, we tend to freeze into that tight shrimp posture without knowing it. Even when we’re not anxious, we spend too much time slumped in front of a screen or curled over our phones. This can mean that when we’re anxious, tense, or even fully dysregulated, that our shoulders and neck can Read more
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Quick Take: How to Go Through Hell (and Keep Going)
People are taking inspiration from this Dan Savage quote during our desperate learning curve on how to survive America’s quick descent into fascism. There is still hope that this is a horrible dark flirtation with evil, and not a complete commitment to this abusive relationship. Maybe we’ll turn this ship around over the next couple Read more
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Toxic Politics
We’re Just One Big Dysfunctional Family The overt narcissist Scenario: you have an obviously narcissistic, authoritarian father. You cannot understand why people can’t seem to see it. There are plenty of people apparently lined up on his side, but he’s a brazen bully. A braggart who engages in screeching victimhood narratives anytime someone dares to Read more
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I Work On My Life 66 Days At a Time
A Structure for DIY Therapy During the time when I was organizing the first of my successful efforts to heal (vs. the decades-long failed patterns), my goal-setting challenges modeled from The One Thing book turned into more of an organized effort. I decided beginning in July of 2020 to start one of these 66-day challenges Read more
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New Adventure: My Tiny Home In the Desert
This is a move that comes at an inflection point in a years-long battle with burnout and recovery. I’ve done a lot of introspection, work, and healing. Even though I’m much better now, I want to opt for a slower-paced life. After strategizing and preparing for a very long time (i.e. years), I bought a Read more