One of the key aspects of getting healthy again has been to see a therapist. The one that I see is great and has been immensely helpful to me during this bout of depression as well as my previous time. Therapists provide a supportive and objective helping hand as you work through whatever issues you READ MORE
Category: Compassion
With Myself Too
I have never really been a particularly patient person, and it became even more of an issue during the toughest months of my depression. My fuse became quite short whether that meant me being quick to anger or cry over things that I shouldn’t have felt the need. As I’m getting better and back into READ MORE
Kintsugi: Admiring the broken pieces that have been remade
Several weeks ago I heard an interview with chef and “wellness writer” Candice Kumai in which she talked about the Japanese art of kintsugi. I enjoyed the interview enough and I have a fondness for East Asian cuisine so I bought her book Kintsugi Wellness, which is a guide to living what she sees as READ MORE
Of Self-Care and Big Dreams
Last week I had my first meeting with a student I’m coaching this term. I had been told that we’d been paired up because I’m the go-to person around time-management strategies in our office, but early in the conversation I figured out that that wasn’t quite where the pairing came from. It became clear that READ MORE
Sometimes You Have To Say ‘It’s Good Enough’
It was recently pointed out to me that I have some ridiculously high standards when it comes to myself, but that hasn’t always been the case. When I was growing up I wasn’t a good student. I managed to muddle through, barely graduating from middle school before doing what needed to get done to graduate READ MORE
Enough With Self-Deprecation
There are big white fluffy flakes of snow falling and I’m sitting in the coffee shop writing. The weather calls for jazz and the piped in music today is definitely not jazz, so Diana Krall is crooning through my earbuds while I sip on my steamed milk over a chai tea bag. There I’ve set READ MORE
Scheduling to Get Out of Bed
As I wrote last week I’m on reduced time at work. For the past two weeks I worked a very small amount and for the next two weeks I’ll work a bit more. The consensus among my doctors and my friends and family is that I shouldn’t be completely off work, that working even a READ MORE
Honesty and Asking For Help
It’s 1:38 in the afternoon on Wednesday (you won’t be reading this for a few days) and I’m back in the same coffee shop that I mentioned in my previous post. I just finished writing about 350 words in my novel and my next goal for my time here is to write this blog post. READ MORE
The Importance of Self-Compassion and Self-Care
Given the topic of my previous post, I thought I’d bring back something I wrote about several months ago about putting on your oxygen mask first. We each have to take care of ourselves or we can’t take care of anyone or anything else. With that in mind, I that this week I would write READ MORE
Believe Them
Let me start by saying that this is not a political post. It’s not really. Some might see it that way, but it’s not. It’s a humanity post, a justice post, a compassion post. It’s an “enough already” post. I’m following the ongoing reports and discussions by Professor Ford against Judge Kavenaugh and frankly, I READ MORE
