I’ve made it a tradition to post this every year around this time. Giving ourselves permission to feel whatever we are feeling during this time of year is absolutely crucial for our mental health. I want to remind you that balanced mental health requires that we live in the both/and. You can feel joyful and […]
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I can’t remember exactly when I started it, but at some point in the past five years, I became aware just how often we rely on violent metaphors in our everyday language. We “fight the good fight,” “kick cancer’s ass,” and “conquer our fears.” When I decided to challenge myself to remove violent imagery from
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So you think you’re doing okay? You think therapy is for “crazy” people. You think you’ve got a pretty good handle on your life, so why should mental health matter to you?… Have you ever been to the dentist even when there’s nothing wrong with your teeth? Why would you do that, if everything is
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Twenty months ago, I put a hold on Redefining Love to focus on a local mental health project. It was rewarding work, and I learned so much! About myself, about my community, about entrepreneurship, about the state of the world, and about what it takes to make change on a large scale. I loved the
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I’ve been struggling to think of my word for 2024. I’ve been thinking about what I need to lean into this year that makes me uncomfortable and scared, in all the best ways. And as I was looking through these photos taken by my friend, the talented Katie Jones, and directed by my inspiring and
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Phew! Life got heavy again. Was it ever not in the past 12 months? Maybe not. But I got really stuck there for the past week. It just hurt. And I had big things to say. Now it is time for me to reset, because otherwise I will remain submerged in the deep dark, and
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I was absolutely shocked by the reader response to my post, “Deal With It,” in which I gave a stream of conscious list of who I really am, unfiltered. Thank you to everyone who replied to the post, and to all those who messaged me privately with their own Deal With It lists. I am
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Wow, you guys. In all these years of laying myself bare in my writing, this is seriously the most publicly naked I have ever felt. It just so happens that I am expanding my business during a pandemic podcast explosion, when enterprising entrepreneurs are hopping on the airwaves to inform and entertain all of us
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Every year I pick a word to serve as a mantra, a guidepost to point me in the right direction. Little did I know when I chose the word brave for my 2020 word just how much courage the year would require. For the past few months, I was pretty settled on intentional for my 2021 word. It’s a
I became familiar with the spoon theory when I became chronically ill. It’s a handy diagnostic tool that helps someone with a long-term illness express in simple terms how much energy they have on any given day. It was developed by Christine Miserandino in 2003, when a friend asked her to describe what it was like to
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