Falling trees, growing kids, and how to cope with change. Plus one new article on the link between mental and physical health and three books to shift your perspective.
Tag Archives: acceptance
Spring Overload: When Feeling Grateful Is Too Much To Ask
Why it’s hard to feel grateful when you’re stressed, new articles on mental health, and three books you won’t want to miss.
Healing Takes Time. Why Do We Act Like It Doesn’t?
Underestimating the pace of healing can set us up for frustration and impatience.
A Container for Complexity in 2020
A reflection on acceptance, adaptation, and persistence during the Covid-19 pandemic, social justice uprisings, and infertility
Heart Tropism
For plants to live, roots must detect and then respond to what is happening to them. I think our hearts are a little like that.
The Pull
When anxiety arrives, you must pay attention, carefully, to your body. To what it feels. You must notice the very beginning of the very first pull. That is your cue to untangle yourself.
If I Were You
We are all worthy of compassion.
Whatever Needs To Be Is
A reflection on serenity and needing vs. wanting.
The Anger Alert: Hello Anger What Do You Have To Tell Me?
For a long time I’ve felt like unpleasant feelings — anger, irritability, anxiety, shame, regret, sadness, stress — are like a fart in a business meeting. At best, a faux pas, and at worst, utterly distasteful. Deep down, I think I really believed that if I lived my life right, I could avoid those unpleasantContinue reading “The Anger Alert: Hello Anger What Do You Have To Tell Me?”
Just Because Something’s Hard
When things feel hard, sometimes it’s a clue that something is wrong and that I need to change course. But, sometimes, when things feel hard, it just means that something is…hard. And new things are hard. For everyone.