As most of you gathered from my last post— and newsletter subscribers have been getting even more content on this– I’m been having a tough winter. I’m burned out, occasionally anxious, often depressed. I’m still functioning, but struggling. Why? Well, because I’m a public school teacher and a mother of two young children, both of […]
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Winter Word: Release
Happy New Year, everyone! I know I said yesterday that the new year was meaningless, but it still feels surprisingly good to have a fresh start, and I’ve decided to take the opportunity to set a word as my intention. Not for the whole year, because who the heck knows what’s going to happen this […]
Anxiety Management: 3 Practical Tips
I have occasional anxiety, so I’ve had to learn a few anxiety management methods. Today, I employed three of them, and my resultant day felt a lot less difficult. I woke up this morning with the prickle in my brain that told me anxiety was making itself at home. Thoughts and plans and ideas whirred […]
The Wind Blows
During my habitual five-minute meditation yesterday, I stared out the window instead of closing my eyes. My office window is rather high, and most of my view is of a large, leafy bush. Today was a windy day, and the bush was in constant motion. It didn’t take long for my imagination to humanize both […]
Meditation Saved Me
Last Monday, my 15 month old daughter went in for surgery on her kidneys and bladder. They told us it would take 4-5 hours; we ended up waiting for more than 7. There were periodic calls from inside the OR, assuring us that everything was going well, but it was still an agonizing time. I expected […]
Friday Book Review: Happier At Home
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been listening to Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin on CDs in my car. It’s taken me awhile, because due to the cold and snow up here in the Northeast, I haven’t actually been in my car very much! I’m glad, though, that I digested this book at a slow […]