by thetendingyear | Jul 2, 2018 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Slow Living, Values
I’m a scholar through and through, so it’s no surprise that one of my central values is learning. If you asked me to describe my ideal method of learning in only two words, they would be slow and steady. I thrive when I can focus slowly and steadily on researching,...
by thetendingyear | Jun 25, 2018 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Slow Living, Time Management
I can barely believe I’m halfway through The Tending Year! To celebrate, I reviewed all of the posts I’ve shared this year and I gathered five lessons that have had the biggest impact on my practices and perspectives. In no specific order, please enjoy my top five...
by thetendingyear | Jun 18, 2018 | Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development
June’s theme is BALANCE. What better way to seek balance than embracing the gray area between black and white thinking? I struggle a lot with Black and White thinking, which I believe is emphasized by my experience with Complex PTSD. According to this 2014 article in...
by thetendingyear | Jun 11, 2018 | Chronic Pain, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Slow Living, Workaholism
If you do a search for the hashtag “selfcare” on Instagram, you’ll find an amalgamation of “you are enough” written in calligraphy, heavily filtered pictures of skinny bikini-clad women on beaches, and…products. Marketing campaigns promote self-care as a product for...
by thetendingyear | Jun 5, 2018 | Addiction & Recovery, Dissertation, Graduate School, Productivity, Workaholism
Most graduate students learn how to condense their dissertation projects into a one sentence “elevator pitch” when someone asks us, “So, what do you study?” We are also just as likely to field the question “Why do you work so much?” with a rehearsed answer. My own...
