Vegan, Atheist, Seattle.
When people generally talk about toxic people and/or toxic personality traits, they’re (again, generally) referring to personality aspects that are destructive, manipulative, perhaps abusive or mean spirited. (At least, that’s the impression I get in…
It’s been about 6 months since my last blog entry. I know that writing more regularly would be good for my writing, and for self-reflection, and may even be a great way to connect with…
I saw this come across Facebook today: Okay, it is a commercial. From a company who wants to sell you things, yes. And make a lot of money doing so. What it also is, is…
It seems much of what I do in my life is driven not by desire, but by fear. Fear of shame, I feel, if I’m being honest. It manifests itself as anxiety, doubt, and overthinking.…
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My default response when an issue is brought to me is, “How can I make it right?” In tech support, this is perfect – someone is coming to you with an issue stopping them from…
Right now, it seems that I have a lot of challenges, a lot of opportunities for growth. It seems I have many behaviors that I need to work on to improve upon. Thinking of them all, all…
This is not an easy lesson for me to learn. I have tendencies to feel like I am a bother to others, an inconvenience. As if they don’t really like or want me, like I’m…
Be gentle to yourself. That’s the first and most important lesson I am learning from therapy, and some recent life experiences that have challenged me. You have to be gentle with yourself. And I write…