Caught in the Tide

The stress of modern life can get to be so much that you feel like you are spinning. Having not done my morning yoga, I drove to work thinking about how this is starting off to be day four without any of my goals met. Memories of playing at the beach when I was a … Read more

Age of Contentment

Walking down a local street of shops and restaurants, I spied a little basket of discount Ts. It was one of those serendipitous moments of just-my-size and extreme-cheapness that leads to thoughts of the item having been placed there just for me. Perhaps even wondering if there is a message from the universe in it. As an Eastern philosophy fan, I’m endlessly finding myself drawn to items with a Chinese symbol and accompanying English translation. This time the T-shirt also included some additional text. It read “Contentment” under the Chinese symbol plus it said:

“to hold onto and to let go of everything all at once”

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Self-Neglect Anonymous

Hi, my name is Pamela… I’m a self-neglecter… Thinking about my mental-struggles over self-care today, I thought “I need a self-care buddy.” Forget a walking buddy or a diet buddy, I need someone to go to the core with me and tell me when I’m rationalizing away my own right to thrive. Then I started … Read more

Learning to Work and Be Well

Work, or my relationship with it, is one of the central challenges to my quest for better self-care and stress management. As I was on the long journey to find healing from chronic pain and illness, I realized how much impact I could have in the healing process. I learned the role that stress plays … Read more

Not So Simple

How quickly the tide can change. I remembered something when I was in the shower and rushed through the rest to quickly take care of it. My stresses were apparently laying in wait for as soon as my frustration opened the door, they came rushing in bringing with them all the things that I was … Read more