The "I AM" Blog
Nobody wakes up calm by accident, not really, not the kind of calm that actually holds up once the day starts throwing things at you. What people usually mean when they say they want more calm is that they want...
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There's a version of journaling everybody imagines before they try it, some soft focus scene with tea and a window and thoughts arriving in tidy little sentences. That is not what it looks like when you're actually upset. What it...
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You know that moment when your child is upset and you can see it all over their face, but when you ask what is wrong, they just say "nothing"? Or when they act out in a way that does not...
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Somebody asks how you're doing and before you even think about it you're listing your calendar back at them. Slammed. Buried. Running on four hours of sleep because the deadline moved up again. Nobody asks how you actually feel anymore,...
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Gratitude has a reputation problem. It gets packaged alongside crystals and vision boards and morning routines that require a level of optimism most people can't access on a Wednesday, and somewhere in all that packaging the actual substance of it...
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