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"It's still magic even if you know how it's done." -Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky I wasn’t a fan of “technology" for my twenties and most of my thirties. It struck me as annoying and more frequently interfered with my relaxation response (it’s a thing!). In the mid-2000s, it wasn’t required or even…

Sometimes mental wellness can feel like a slippery fish, here one minute and disappearing into murky waters the next. Where did the lovely little fish of health, moving with fluidity and grace, with assuredness and well-being, go exactly? 2020 debited quite a bit from the "energy and emotional bank", but after a history of struggles…

I came across a meme recently with an image of a half-full carafe of coffee that said, "Your worth is not measured by your productivity," wrapped around the brim and inside the coffee. During the early part of the pandemic, I found myself grasping at straws to find ways to prove to myself that yes…

Grief feels rather slippery when we try to grab and fix it. Elusive, changeable as a chameleon, and coming and going in its own rhythms, it's like the tides of an ocean. Thomas Golden in his book, Swallowed by A Snake, delivers a beautiful story that "going into grief may at times be like being…

When I think back on my trajectory of struggles and peaks, beginning at age 16, it resembles a stock market graph, spanned over decades. Up, down, up, down, down, down, up. Taken from a more expansive viewpoint, it's always gaining and growing. Recently speaking with a woman who's also in her thirties, we agreed that…