Okay, yes. I know social media is an obsession and I know too many of us are fastened to our phones. I also get that we are presenting an overly stylized version of our lives. I don’t have to prove to anyone that our technology often outpaces our […]
Read MoreOn Being Numb and Waking Up Wisely
I love passion like Oprah loves bread (and I also love bread.) The feeling of passion that inspires deep love, desire, anger, hatred, outrage, exasperation, reminds us we’re alive and kicking. This is good. For those of us who have experienced the lethargy of grief, these sparky emotions […]
Read MoreThe Power of Habit
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Will Durant I’ve been reading a lot about habit-building and I’ve discovered a problem with me: I’m great at identifying big things that need to change. I mean, great […]
Read MoreThe Thing About Number Six
It’s Monday and Monday is usually a fresh start for me. I love Mondays. Except today. Today, I woke up feeling hunched over. Pushed down. And the funny thing is, it’s not my immediate circumstances that feel weighty. My life is really pretty solid right […]
Read MoreDoing What’s Working: A Purely Subjective Take on Surviving Sorrow
Confession: Seven months after losing Steve, I have yet to make it through an entire book on dealing with grief. Partly, because I read too many books at once and the grief books are easiest to put down. But more because the minute I run into subjective truth that’s stated […]
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