Tag: changing your life
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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
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ADHD Hacks for Actually Using a Planner
“Have you tried using a planner?” This question must be one of the top pet peeves of the ADHDer. As if the real problem is that we just haven’t tried the most obvious solutions in the world. Many ADHDers have collections of unused planners sitting neglected on a shelf, bearing silent testimony to the wild… Read more
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Personalized New Year Rituals
I’ve developed my own traditions over the years. My personal rituals have made New Year’s Day my favorite holiday. These traditions are inspiring and give me that “fresh start” feeling, but also help me continue my healing work from CPTSD, and to build on prior successes. Here’s a quick take on a ritual that takes… Read more
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What Can Adderall Do For ADHD?
The Road Trip Imagine life as a road trip. Your consciousness is the driver of this vehicle. As we grow up, we each are learning to drive. The vast majority of people learn successfully enough to navigate on their own. Everyone has differences in skill and style, and various breakdowns and accidents occur along the… Read more
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Journaling For Mental Health
I’ve been outlining the various steps I took starting in late 2019 and going into 2020 to try to emerge from a state of mental illness and misery. Although they seem random and unrelated, these steps led me, for the first time in my life, to a period of continual improvement out of the state… Read more
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Mindfulness Meditation: the Thin End of the Wedge
I’ve already described how, during 2019 and 2020, I had started to break down what I’d always thought of merely as intense anxiety, and define what was really a cluster of debilitating symptoms that added up to feeling unbearable tension. In another post, I described a few, perhaps odd and shaky, but effective early steps… Read more
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How Long Can You Try to Get Better Without Succeeding?
I’d had a lot of ups and downs during a long and brutal period of anxiety, stress, and depression, but I’d never stopped working on trying to get better and happier. I am a self-improvement junkie, in some senses. It’s just what I do. I’m in love with ideas and thinking and figuring things out.… Read more
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The Search for Integrity and Happiness: the Why and the What
This blog will be a journal to attempt to solve some big problems for myself. I reached a point where I just can’t – no, I don’t want to – go on like this anymore. I’ll start by tracing how I reached a turning point. 2019 was a difficult year. It started with an incredibly… Read more