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Are we Obsessed with Working Harder, Longer, More Often?

Or, is it just a Millennial thing? Am I doing too much? Or, not enough? These two thoughts bounce around my head constantly. Whether it comes to parenting, managing the house, or my own personal work projects. Creative projects, sorry. Sometimes, or rather, most of the time, it feels like I’m drowning in everything that […]

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How Social Media Gave me a Breakdown and it’s all my Fault

By nature I’m a really angry person. Lots of things set me off, some of them big, a lot of them small. I’m a big believer in the ‘no worries and move on’ type of attitude, only if it doesn’t fuck with my plans. I’m basically an old man, swinging his fist at youths who […]

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Stress, Self-Care, and Finding a Way out of the Storm

I wrote most of this a few years ago, and man, did SO much happen since. Lots of great stuff, then a pandemic changing everything, pregnancy, my now 2 year old daughter. I can pin-point what was happening that made me write this, but it also holds true for times during the pandemic AND into […]

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Social Media Led me to a Breakdown and it’s All my Fault

By nature I’m a really angry person. Lots of things set me off, some of them big, a lot of them small. I’m a big believer in the ‘no worries and move on’ type of attitude, only if it doesn’t fuck with my plans. I’m basically an old man, swinging his fist at youths who […]

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Toxic Motivation is Running Some of us Into Complete Exhaustion

Why do some of us think we need to work ourselves into total physical sickness? Hello, I’m some of us. I don’t know if this weird work ethic was distilled in me during my youth, or if it’s something I’ve picked up throughout my life, and much more during the social media age, when I’ve […]

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The Silent Pain of Living with Chronic Pain

I can’t really remember a time in my life when waking up with searing pain above my eye, or a throbbing so deep that I assume my brain will explode with the my next heartbeat wasn’t normal. I know that I didn’t have migraines when I was a child, that they came upon me when […]

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Can I Work in a Social Media Age?

I don’t think I can be the type of person that Instagram needs you to be. I don’t like reels. I honestly do not enjoy videos and would rather read, or look at static images. I don’t make any stories. I have no schtick. It’s just me. Take it or leave it. It’s why, though […]

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The World Feels like it’s Spinning out of Control

I never used to be this scared. This anxious. I used to go head first into things, thinking I was invincible, that I could do absolutely anything if I just put my mind to it. I’ve lost that, and while some of it is my own fault, I’m going to selfishly put the blame on […]