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 […]
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It’s too hard to coordinate getting photos into the post this week – covid fatigue, burnout fatigue, parenting fatigue, emotional fatigue – it’s been a rough two weeks. So instead, you get a poem that I wrote last week, which I am definitely counting as ‘making something’. <3 On Healing: A Letter To Myself With
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Other much more expert people than I have had much to say on this topic, so I intend to keep this brief. But I just wanted to note that so far, in my experience, being brave has never let me down yet. Lonely and feeling nervous to reach out? Do it. There are so many
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Or, a post in which I persist in typing ‘hollidays’ >.< So anyway, it’s spring break now in Australia-land, not that anyone in Australia land calls it that, but woo hoo! Two full, glorious weeks in which I do not have to attend my place of employ! (I’m not going to say ‘in which I
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6 weeks into this gluten-consumption rubbish and the anxiety is whirling. On the one hand, boo hiss this totally sucks. On the other hand, at least it’s concrete evidence that gluten is responsible, and suggests that managing anxiety will be much easier in the future once I’m allowed to go back off gluten? (2 weeks+
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Weekend before Easter I got roped into hiking with school. I say ‘roped’; I mentioned at the start of the year to the coordinator that I was interested in doing some hiking this year, and then the female teacher for this hike had to pull out, and so I got about 10 days’ warning. Wow
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This runs almost directly counter to everything I said last Thursday, but on the other hand I use both techniques, so they’re clearly compatible in reality. Paradoxes. Fun stuff. (I actually spoke about this to some students last week, and suggested today’s technique for low-moderate nerves/anxiety, and Thursday’s technique for moderate-high anxiety.) So here’s the
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Fight your fears! Battle your demons! Stand against the darkness that envelops you! Yeah, yeah, we get it. To have fears is to be weak, to have anxious fears (i.e. unfounded, melodramatic, or unrealistic fears) is even weaker, and if you don’t stand up right this instant with a fear-tuned flamethrower and FIGHT THE LIFE
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In good times, it is possible for a lion to purr. (If you have not seen this, you will not believe me.) Your lion wants to keep you safe. Because of this, occasionally, when you are safe and your lion sees this, it will rub its cheeks against you and purr, like the distant rumble
