So it’s February. And the newness of 2017, the feelgood promise of new beginnings, affirmations and resolutions have faded.
I’m in a rut ya’ll.
Call it seasonal depression. Maybe I need two cups of coffee to jumpstart my mood. [Read more…]
Making sense of motherhood and the world around us
So it’s February. And the newness of 2017, the feelgood promise of new beginnings, affirmations and resolutions have faded.
I’m in a rut ya’ll.
Call it seasonal depression. Maybe I need two cups of coffee to jumpstart my mood. [Read more…]
How is this lady with the seeing eye dog about to pass me?
She had been gaining on me for a while. She was like a mirage, inspirational and mostly unbelievable. The lady and the dog were running in sync, panting in rhythm and they were quickly gliding right pass me.
I ran my first 5K (3.1 miles) this weekend and although I wasn’t planning on being competitive, I was not letting this lady with the seeing eye dog outrun me. [Read more…]
I felt myself retreating into a corner this week, more like a hole. I felt like my creativity was getting choked, like an editor was hovered over me criticizing my work, deleting my articles and replacing type with question marks.
But none of that was real. It was all anxiety, smoke shoveled into my mind to shutdown my work. And I was doing it to myself.
Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever shutdown a dream, an idea, a vision, with negative self talk and scenarios that haven’t even happened? [Read more…]