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The past several days have been rough for me, and it took me a long time to figure out why. In my external life, I reached an intersection of suck. I sent a follow-up email to the publisher that I’ve been waiting on (I submitted my manuscript to them a …
I hate getting advice or unsolicited feedback. When I was young, I accepted other people’s advice. I even welcomed it. Back then, I thought I was such a hopeless screw-up that I was happy to have any help I could get. Then, I went through a phase where it would …
Last night, I had a disturbing dream. I won’t go into the details, but it was about rejection. In my dream, I allowed myself to let loose and not carefully control everything I did, and I suffered a humiliating and unfair rejection because of it. I then became consumed with …
This morning, I listened to another interview with Elizabeth Gilbert. About eight minutes in, she talks about how anxiety is like a disease that has spread around the world. We have good reason to be anxious these days, but she wondered, “What if I just didn’t drink your anxiety lemonade? …
I’ve had a lot of anxiety for the past couple of days. I’ve been having trouble sleeping at night and multiple panic attacks. It might be because I’ve resumed the horrifically unhealthy habit of reading the news. I picked it up in early adulthood, but around the mortgage crisis in …
When I first moved to Japan, my beauty routine fell apart. A lot of the products I’d used in the US aren’t sold here, and even when I lived in the US, where I could read the labels, I struggled to find the right products. I wanted things that at …
I’m not feeling quite as joyous today as yesterday. As a matter of fact, I’m stuck in the freeze response (ie: fight, flight, or freeze). Oy, just writing those first two sentences took quite a bit of effort. Ever since I moved my blog, the WordPress Reader hasn’t sent me …
I thought that writing here regularly would be difficult, but I found it pretty easy last week, even enjoyable. This weekend, I was in a better mood than I have been in years. Is it the daily writing practice? I don’t know. I even felt compelled to write in my …
On social media, a friend of mine wrote a long post about courage. She was referencing the political strife that’s going on in the US and how we need a show of courage from certain politicians (I’m not going to reiterate her whole post here), but it got me thinking …
I’m feeling really excited and energized today. Last night, when I heard about the Georgia senate race, I cried. I don’t know if I’d call them tears of joy. More like tears of hope. Given the rest of the news (is anyone surprised?), things will be challenging going forward, but …
