I heard a therapist once say to focus on stocking your own kitchen so that if someone comes knocking on your door with a pizza, you only choose to let them in because you want to see them and not because you’re starving. I took that a step further when I went through...
For years, “become more confident” was one of those goals that got moved from one year’s list to the next as I would audit my yearly goals on New Years: target unmet. I couldn’t figure it out. I saw confident people everywhere I looked. But I couldn’t seem to become...
There’s this thing we do. All of us. Not a one of us immune. We tell ourselves there’s a very important reason for it. We actually even convince ourselves that it’s for our own good; our benefit; that this is actually a favor we’re doing for ourselves. But it’s a lie....
The reality is we all get there sometimes. Where we’re tempted to just throw in the towel and go rot in bed. And some of us, ::cough:: ::cough:: maybe me, have been there more than we want to admit. The last year and a half has been really hard, okay? It’s a tricky...
*Disclaimer I had a teacher in the 8th grade who had a list of words and phrases up on his wall that we weren’t allowed to use. I remember walking into homeroom on the first day of school and being totally confused about why the phrase “I’m sorry” made it to the wall....
I was scrolling TikTok, and for some reason my For You will sometimes serve up artist content. Painters. Sculptors. That sort of thing. I've always enjoyed art, but I don't have one artistic bone in my body. I loved drawing as a kid, but the talent...woof. Just not...