In 2010, I had a mental breakdown. In December of that year, I called the EAP at my company, totally clueless and asked them to get me an appointment with a therapist. And that started my therapy journey. My first
Therapist #6 – Starting over
The Moody Blues
Note: this is not about the English rock band So most of you who’ve been around for any length of time know that I have bipolar disorder. I’m not quite true Bipolar I, but it’s more intense than Bipolar II.
The Happiness Trap – Week 7 – SMART Goals (ugh)
So I set (and meet) goals all the time. This week the Happiness Trap wanted me to think about SMART goals, and I (and every other corporate employee in America collectively) cringed. For those who don’t know, SMART goals (“Specific,
Therapy in 2019
My therapy appointment this week consisted of talking about: how fucked we are by climate change how infuriating it is that we’ve known that this was coming since the 70’s and nobody did anything about it except kick the can
ACT and thinking about Values
So for the last six weeks or so I’ve been working through the ACT introductory program by Russ Harris called The Happiness Trap (note that it’s on sale right now, so if you’ve wanted to do this program, now’s a good
Traumas and Blog Prompts
One of the things that NaNoBlogThing does for its members is provide the occasional prompt for a post. Like most collections of blogging prompts, these are usually benign creativity boosters and story prompts to help out someone that gets stuck
The Difference between Choice and Failure
Failure. Ugly word, ugly connotations, ugly mental constructs built to avoid it. I was reading an article recently about when to stop doing something, and it kind of tweaked my brain about failure versus changing your mind. From the original
How does your garden grow?
(Another sort of kum-ba-ya post for this week. Apparently I’m in that kind of mood.) Reason #1 (which is actually a few reasons): Because it’s fun. I get to spend time outside in the sun. I get to eat fresh,