Okay, so last post I made a comment about the path ending and bad things happening and I said I’d explain next time. Well, this is that story. It was spring of 2008, and I was in the San Juan Islands studying orca whales. Some of my fellow student researchers and I decided to go […]
My start to 2019 has been a busy one. From closing on a house and getting ready to move in my personal life to having new projects and tight deadlines dumped on me at work, I’ve had plenty to keep me busy. In some ways this is better for my anxiety, forcing my mind to […]
Every new years I make resolutions out of some misplaced sense of obligation. Resolutions are what normal people do, right? Resolutions like going to the gym more (who thought that was a good idea?), eating healthier (doughnut holes are healthier than cream filled donuts, right?), and being more ambitious (see previous parentheticals, ‘nough said), are […]
Anyone who writes regularly is familiar with the dreaded writer’s block. I even made a post about it back in November. Yet what I struggled with over the last day or so as I tried to write this post was even worse. It was impostor’s block. Impostor syndrome, as some call it, is the common […]
Fight or flight. We all know it. The basic animal instinct of assessing a threat, then deciding to fight or run. Easy enough, but not always easy for me when my mental illness muddies the water. Some theories I’ve read suggest mental health issues stem, in part, from a fight or flight function that has […]
The other day I pulled a notebook out of my office desk and somehow launched a pen out of the drawer like a small missile. Maybe it seems like a small deal, probably because it is, but it is just an opening salvo in the war I wage, and lose, with my organizational skills. While […]
I recently visited a chiropractor to get my back assessed. Now, I know that I don’t have the best posture in the world, so it wasn’t a great surprise when he said the x-rays showed my spine was slightly out of alignment and that it was likely caused by my posture. He then went on […]
