mental health
Tried Improv for the First Time for My Writing
Just got home from my first improv class. It was a free improv class at ColdTowne Conservatory in Austin I found while googling “free improv classes near me.” On a whim, I decided to go by myself. I did it for my writing. I did it to get out of Read more
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Quotes I’m Loving from Kate Northrop’s Book: Do Less
It’s not too late. As long as we have a pulse, it’s never too late… We forget that…happiness comes from the process of progress and growth, not from the result of progress and growth. (Quotes I’m Loving from Kate Northrop’s Book: Do Less)
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Write a ‘What’s Going Right’ List
Oftentimes in life, it’s easy to succumb to old ways of being, of thinking. Mine tends to automatically go into what’s going wrong. A friend of mine, who happens to also be a therapist and life coach, had stopped me mid-conversation one day over the phone. “Wait a minute, Lily. Read more
mental health
Puzzling Out Life, One Piece at a Time
When tackling a 500 word puzzle, it’s easy to be frightened of beginning a new color scheme in the corner. Much more easier to stick to the familiar, what you’ve already tackled so far fairly successfully. So you leave that corner alone. Yet the secret, I’ve found, is to begin Read more
mental health
Watch this Alexis Ffrench Video to Instantly Activate Your Parasympathetic Nervous System
Watch and listen to this Alexis Ffrench video to instantly activate your parasympathetic nervous system (turning off the fight/flight sympathetic branch) and feel inspired about the possibilities of life. I recently discovered this phenomenal pianist from the UK while attempting to focus for some work-related writing. Now I’m going through Read more
mental health
The Impact of Running on Your Mind
Right before the sun set today, I set out to run. To be quite honest, I didn’t feel like it at all. It felt easier to get lost online in front of my laptop. It felt easier to just sit. But I remembered how great it felt to move my Read more
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It’s Not What You Do. It’s How You Do It that Matters.
There’s a line in a movie I just finished watching that I want to share. The movie is The Farewell, starring Awkafina, who is phenomenal in the film as the protagonist who returns to China with her family to spend time with her beloved grandmother, only to hide a pretty Read more
mental health
Writing is My Xanax
Now that I’ve been aiming to write daily in my blog for at least 365 days since Nov 29, 2019, my writer friend and I decided to meet daily to work on our novels, if just for the tiniest bit. With our work and other life stuff filling up much Read more
Families
Watched My Kid Play Tetris
I just watched my kid play Tetris, a game I used to play as a kid with my siblings. First he showed me a video of an older guy, a 7-time champion, vs a 16-year-old kid. Watching the video, and then my kid play the game himself on his laptop Read more