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The Failure Mistake

You know, that feeling when something you’ve made or done or planned goes sideways and suddenly your insides are burning and you feel...

Growing Hope

Waking up exhausted is a defeating way to start the day. I mean, I never wake up feeling good, and hardly ever experience moments at any...

Yours to Choose

If you read my blog last week, you’ll know that studies suggest that the average adult makes between 33 000-35 000 choices a day. I’m not...

What's Next?

An incredibly wise person once told me (ok, she didn’t actually tell me, I read it in her book), that asking ‘Why?’ is a waste of energy,...

Delicious Possibilities

Sometimes, writing is hard. The words don’t want to cooperate and the page stays blank no matter how many words I put on it. Each idea I...

Hope

I lost a day yesterday. Things had been on a downward trajectory for me for a little while and yesterday my energy ran out. I don’t mean...

Rooted in Story

I was going to write about the destructive powers of apathy this week, but the blog felt heavy and sad. Before I’d even gotten to the...

Is That News?

Reading the news is a practice that I know is not particularly good for my mental health. I like to be informed about what’s happening in...

The Light of Wim Hof Method

Learning the Wim Hof Method has been a life saving tool. It gave me back control over my life at a time when I thought all hope was lost....

The Weight of Worry

Worry is a weight that wears on most of us. Some of us wake up to the constriction in our chest, spend the day with our mind racing and...

A Moment to Savour

My brain is foggy and my limbs are heavy. My words are not finding their way easily to the page today. This is today’s version of the...

A Little Light in the Struggle

For the last few years, I have been caught in the struggle. Some days it’s the struggle to walk up stairs, to put on my socks, to be...

Inextricable Connection

I just read a chapter in Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown that I wish I could share with every human alive in the world today. This...

Baggage

Everyone has baggage. Whether it’s the stuff you take when you board a plane or the lived experience you bring to each moment of your...

How do you know?

Have you ever had someone ask you to justify your gender? If you are cis gender (meaning the gender you were declared at birth matches...

Coming out. Again.

When I faded out of the world of blogging, it was because I didn’t know what I wanted to say anymore. I felt like I was hunting for...

A Quiet Goodbye

It has been awhile since I’ve felt lost and floundering in what exactly I should do with my blog. I thought about turning it into a blog...

Acceptance is for Pigeons

Whenever I am faced with how truly, amazingly adaptable humans can be, I am even more perplexed by our destructive nature. If we can...

I Thought I Was Prepared

I thought I was prepared. I had prepared for the possibility that my class might go to remote learning. Booklets were printed, an outline...

Earth Day is Not Christmas

Christmas only comes once a year, but I’m just not sure that the same should be true for Earth day. There are a lot of reasons that we...

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