Gratitude

The past few days have been intense to say the least. I am now fully trained in EMDR (often used to treat trauma), look it up. I’ll probably end up doing a separate blog on it. But for now... I just am in awe of everything I have accomplished in my life despite my own [...]

Seascape Saturday

Celebrate life In all of its rawness and form emotion Painful or joyous To experience and move through this world Is such a gift Especially with people who love and understand you. I’m so grateful today.

Happy Thanksgiving

I’m trying to have myself some peace today so I’m forgoing a discussion about the problematic history of this US holiday. Forgive me for that and let me tell you that I’m grateful to be done with grading and this entire semester. It’s 55 degrees F here today and I went on a lovely walk. [...]

My Sunshine Blogger Award

  This is such a fun positive thing and I'm happy to be nominated and involved. The lovely KellyKinetics nominated me and I'm super excited to try to answer her questions to the best of my ability lol and to nominate 11 people myself! Yay. You should totally go check out Kelly's blog... lots of [...]

Wellness Wednesday: Love Languages

I spent my day listening to instrumental piano music, looking outside my window at the snow, and writing/working from home, which I think was needed after the start of this week. Overall I am not feeling very "well" for a variety of reasons, and I don't feel like writing today, but I'm trying to stick [...]

Wellness Wednesday: Perspective

I slept better than I've slept for a long time Sunday into Monday, but last night it felt like I didn't sleepy at all. I know that's not true though because I remember a dream I had.  Anyway, it's always rough when my night isn't restful and my chest hurts because of anxiety and I [...]