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 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...
by thetendingyear | Feb 20, 2018 | Habit formation, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development
The postcard in this image is from Corina Dross’s “portable fortitude” deck. This month I’m focusing on Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves, and this week I delve into the rich topic of self-sabotage. I spent a week learning about self-sabotage and practicing...
