mental health
Question of the Day: How Can I Be a Better Human?
How can I be a better human to other humans? Especially the ones I truly love? Photo by Mahjur Ahmed on Unsplash
mental health
Water the Seeds of Joy
“Let’s water the seeds of joy!” I just told my writer friend as we signed off our daily 5/5. It’s Saturday and it’s almost 7am, 6:55am to be exact. It feels good to be up earlier and getting our 5/5s, our quick dip into our novels, out of the way. Read more
mental health
Channeling the Spider
While at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, last year (when we were still living in a RV full-time as a family last year), I did a Mayan energy healing with a woman named Azenet who had quit her job as a journalist to become a Shaman and energy healer. Using Read more
mental health
The Role of Resistance
What is the role of resistance? Why do I resist doing some things that I say I want to do? Yesterday, while listening to my writer friend’s WhatsApp message about her resistance as of late to meditating and journaling, she said that she wasn’t sure why she was resisting it Read more
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Self Experimenting is the Key to Building New Habits
Now that I’ve successfully finished my 7-Day Wake Up at 5AM Challenge, I’ve decided to embark on another self-experiment: Waking up at 5:30 am for 30 Days. (Today is Day 1.) After 7 days in a row of getting up while the skies are still dark, I’ve realized that I Read more
Self-Experiment
Reflections on My 7-Day 5AM Wake-Up Challenge
It’s Day 7 of my 7-day 5am Wake Up Challenge. I’m here up before dark, actually blogging. I guess it’s a substitute for my usual Morning Pages done via 750 words (my favorite place to journal or write — I love the feeling of a glaringly white blank canvas that belongs Read more
Self-Experiment
A New Writing Plan: A Year of Rejections Without Fear
My writing friend and I have a new plan. Now that we’ve been showing up daily for our novels and fiction, we’ve decided to start submitting our work more than we ever have in our writing life. We are planning to face rejection in the face this year! Since Dec Read more
inspiring quotes
A Quote to Remember If You Struggle with Anxiety and Depression
All of us struggling with mood disorders need to take care not to recklessly spike our insulin, because it creates a negative hormonal cascade within our fight or flight nervous system. — Heather Juergensen Photo by Yarden on Unsplash
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More Morning Rambling: An Experiment with Rejection and Anxiety
It’s almost 7am and outside the once-black sky is now brightening into blue. I’ve been up since 5am on this Valentine’s Day morning. My show of self-love today is to allow myself to more morning rambling. It’s my fourth day waking up at 5am, part of this 7-day challenge (if Read more
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Waking Up Early
I’m up early again. Day 3 of my 7-day challenge to wake up early at 5am. So far, I’m doing it! Can’t believe I’m up so early, but once I’m up, it feels damn good to plan my day and write before anyone else is up, before the sun dares Read more