The last month has been even more fatigue-y than usual, and it was very challenging yesterday to realise that a bunch of things that would usually be super easy for me – in this case, helping the 13-yr-old with homework and literally just finalising a menu and turning it into a grocery list for an […]
Having No Brain Is Very Hard (But At Least I Finished A Book!) Read More »
Intro post #1 here. Okay, so you’re keeping dedicated notes and you’ve kind of figured out that there are three basic flavours of Being Stuck In Bed that have nothing to do with lazy or sick: fatigue, mental health, or neurodivergent symptoms (including for people who aren’t typically neurodivergent). Today we’re going to tackle the
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Doing my weekly journalling and I’m starting May this week. Loving this quote from Hilary Collier Rushford: As a stylist, I teach about the chicness of breathing room. A collar left open, a cuff rolled up. We see it in a home that isn’t overly crowded with stuff, has room to easily relax on the
May Is The Month Of… Read More »
So I made a commitment to keep blogging the other month, and then my website promptly died on me >.< Usually when it does, it either revives within about half an hour, or else it’s something I can poke around and fix. This time, it was neither. Boo. So it took a few weeks for
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Just some random musings on the state of my life this evening, journal style, because yes, I’m writing this in the evening even though it’ll show up first thing in the morning – not that that matters, because by the time you read it, it could be morning, it could be evening, it could be
A Plethora Of Options Read More »
A Friday Favs with pictures this time! How glorious. What a thing – wait for it – to be grateful for. *grin* I was going to do this like picture – sentence – picture – sentence etc but I decided that would make the post unwieldy, so I’ve just popped the pictures in and captioned
Friday Favs, aka Things I’m Grateful For (With Pictures!) Read More »
This one hit me hard at some point last year, right in the middle of trying to heal from burnout, trying to slow my life down so it doesn’t always feel like a breathless, frantic, slightly panicked rush. Therapy is great. Journalling (to my eternal irritation) works amazingly. Learning growth mindsets and cognitive behavioural therapy
Oof, this one’s rough. But it’s *worth* it. I remember too clearly that heading-for-burnout mental state where everything felt urgent, everything felt critical, nothing felt like something I could afford to drop. I used to make records of my time, trying to justify (to who?) why I felt so exhausted: See! Look! No spare time,
Somewhat ironic that, after posting last week about the necessity of Saturday rest in my life and the benefits thereof, I spent the weekend really struggling to do so. This year has been very focused on learning to let go of my high expectations for myself in terms of extreme productivity, on being really challenged
Avoiding Rest Like A Boss :P Read More »
Ever since I was a kid, Saturday has been rest day. In primary school (Years Kindy to 6), this was sometimes a bummer: there were a whole range of secular activities our family didn’t engage in on a Saturday, so it felt sometimes like we were missing out on bonding with our friends. High school
