Content Warning: Discussion of self-harm & suicial ideation I was thinking about my April 21 this morning: that feeling of being fourteen and untested in […]
Wednesday Check-In
Life looks like: watching an early Aughts’ Supernanny episode on Youtube when I wake up too early because it showed up in my feed and […]
Let Everything Happen
Today is brought to you by Instagram philosophy. And some actual philosophy from Rainer Maria Wilke: “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just […]
A Real Snow Day
If only every Saturday were like this one. Sleeping nine, nearly ten hours. I wonder if my body has rested, truly, in months, and now […]
Mood Tracking
The journal I’m using this year, the Dear Self With Love planner created by my lovely friend Jenna, has posed one interesting challenge for me. […]
Is this self-care?
Have you ever eaten chicken in the bathtubExaggerated self-careTo negate a pounding heart? Did it work for you?Or did you rise up, warm and wet […]
It Will Help
Yesterday I took pictures of flowers again while I walked. And of the water. And the deer who crossed my path. My friend tells me […]
A Day Alone
Pine sol and lavender meltsAnd layers of dust from ground-down concreteI’m on my knees, scrubbingBut the new floors look like home After a week of […]
The Day
‘Let the day be the day’ And other things a therapist tells me That make me feel a little better About being a mile off […]
A Little Success
Today is a little success. Not much got done but that was the plan. In the weeks where I’ve been struggling to plan my downtime […]