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 | May 28, 2018 | Habit formation, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Slow Living, Values
For me, Negative Self Talk usually sounds like this: Why would anyone like me? I’ll never be good enough. I shouldn’t even try. I’m going to fail anyways. It feels cringingly horrible, and once I fall into the dark pit of a self loathing loop it can be very difficult...
by thetendingyear | Apr 30, 2018 | Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Values
Every year during April I get the telltale symptoms of seasonal allergies, and every year I get nervous that I’m actually getting the flu. You’d think I would know this by now, but here’s a scene from two Saturdays ago that proves otherwise: I worry that my allergies...
by thetendingyear | Apr 23, 2018 | Chronic Pain, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development
I spend a lot of time in my head: reading, writing, revising, and thinking. Case in point: last weekend I woke my Sweetheart up at 4 a.m. by mumbling “Hmmm…Mhmm…” in my sleep because I had been working on my dissertation in my dream. If you’ve been reading since...
by thetendingyear | Apr 16, 2018 | Graduate School, Mindfulness, Productivity, Slow Living, Workaholism, Writing
When I was a teenager, I would write a poem in one sitting, always declaring it “done” after a few hours. I enjoyed then and still enjoy having something concrete to show for my work. Since then, I gathered many more tools that help me to envision writing poetry as a...
by thetendingyear | Apr 2, 2018 | Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Time Management
Last week I focused my attention on focus itself. I was interested in figuring out how and why I allocated my time and energy in the ways that I did. I also wanted to see what was causing me to lose focus, and to see if I could identify any tools that might help me...
