A few weeks ago, our work team decided to start setting health and wellness goals. My first one was to get my eyes checked. It had been almost three years and I had no excuse. I’ve had eye insurance since December 2021. I just kept putting it off. Being diabetic, Read more…
As I was cleaning out a folder last week from a conference I attended last spring. One of the sessions was about self-care (I shared the self-care checklist I found in the folder last week). This Self-Care Wheel also has some great ideas on it. You can see it here. Read more…
One thing I have done since I started my full-time job almost two years ago is work on my part-time job on my lunch break on the days I’m working at home. That usually means that I scarf down my lunch, then spend the lunch hour on my personal laptop Read more…
Last week, the therapist gave me the homework to write down ten positive things about myself. She said this is different than the strengths exercise. So here are a few I came up with so far: After writing these down, I looked back at my strengths list and found some Read more…
I’ve been doing therapy for a couple of months now. I cannot remember exactly when I started (need to look back at that). When we first started, the therapist did a depression/anxiety scale that showed I had quite a bit of anxiety and significant depression. She’s repeated the scale twice Read more…
As I have joined the world of online dating, I have started to notice that the scammers say a lot of the same things, in the exact same wording. So here is your “Scammer Warning Guide”. They might be a scammer if: Do you have scammer warning signs to add Read more…
What are your thoughts on saying positive affirmations to yourself each day? It is something I have done off and on, but never consistently. As I was clearing out some bags yesterday, I found this list of affirmations from a class I attended at a conference back in March. Working Read more…
As you know, I have been doing online therapy sessions. One of the things that we have been working on is interrupting negative thought processes. Working on what I say to myself is something that I have been working on for a while, ever since I read Shad Helmstetter’s book Read more…
I have been thinking about a plan to meet my visit 23in23 list. I’ve done seven, so I have 16 left. With basically four months left in the year, I need to do at least four a month the rest of the year. September, I am going to try to Read more…