*checks the time* It’s already dark, isn’t it? *groans and burrows deeper into my hoodie* If there was a perfect visual for the tone I plan to take for this blog, it’s of Tony Stark’s statement for the press right after he got back from his captivity, when he sat down and had all those well-dressed media folks sit, too, so he could eat his cheeseburger and speak freely. So, uh…everybody sit. Post-Halloween Burnout I feel like a wick drowning in a puddle of its own melted wax. That’s no surprise. It’s November, which is notoriously one of the hardest months of the year for me. To start with the…
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A Better Way to Look at Therapy
We’re getting better at talking about therapy as a society. We are. We just haven’t updated our expectations of what it looks like. I’d be happy to help with that. Caveat: There are a bunch of different types of therapy, and the type you need might vary based on what’s going on. But this is what has held true across my experience and understanding. First, I’d like to discuss three misguided notions of therapy I’ve either had or witnessed in the wild. Then I’d like to share a better one that more accurately describes my experience, as well as that of many others. Three Popular Misconceptions of Therapy The Machine…
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7 Non-Writing Practices That Make Me a Better Writer
It has been said that to read is to inhale and to write is to exhale. I would expand that to say that experience is inhalation and creation is exhalation. Reading is just one way of experiencing the world. It allows you to live experiences not your own, but it’s also important to gather your own lived experiences. If you’ve read my work for any length of time, you’re aware of how I exhale (i.e. create), but today I’d like to talk about what I inhale. What you take in has a great deal to do with what you produce, and I’ve found that a balance of the following seven…