Someone told me yesterday, “I feel like a tiger is chasing me and I’m just sitting on the couch.” I related to that. Deeply. About six months ago I wrote […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
How to Change Direction When Life Goes Sideways
I’m currently watching the Harry Potter movies for the first time. I just finished the second one, and at the end, Professor Dumbledore tells Harry: It’s not our abilities that […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
If We All Wore Our Sins on Our Shirts
About six months ago I rewatched The Scarlet Letter. The Demi Moore one. And even as I was sitting there, halfway paying attention and halfway judging the costumes, I knew it […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
Why So Many of Us Feel Like We’re Performing Instead of Living
Some days I catch myself moving through the hours like I’m in somebody else’s body. Sort of like I’m borrowing a life because I misplaced my own; or never really […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
What Life? I Ain’t Got No Life.
I was rewatching The Revenant today, mostly because sometimes you just need a little TOM HARDY. But there was a line I had forgotten about. One of the fur trappers […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
The Woman at the Well (Spoiler Alert; It’s You)
I just realized that I’m the Samaritan woman at the well. Or basically in a similar situation. If we use her as an archetype, her story becomes very relevant to […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
I Am Changed
I am changed. It’s a very simple statement really, but not at all simplistic. Sometimes when a person becomes too comfortable in what they have and who they are, they […]
Health and Wellness - Social and Self-Help
So, Be a Survivor
What happens when life kicks you so hard that you’re not sure if you can get back up? I remember seeing something years ago; one of those inspirational quotes that […]
Health and Wellness - Making Money - Social and Self-Help
The Pit of Despair (And Why We Need to Stop Digging)
You know that feeling when you’ve tried so many times to fix something that you just… stop trying? When the effort itself feels pointless because nothing ever changes anyway? In […]
Finance and Economy - Health and Wellness - Making Money - Social and Self-Help
Remember When?
Remember when neighbors used to borrow cups of sugar? Not just when they were desperately out, but because borrowing and lending was just what people did. It was a way […]