Category: things I’d tell a shrink
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My Retirement Plan Is Death (And Other Recurring Problems I’m Fixing)

We all have problems we keep reliving. Mine are financial stability and the struggle to speak up. In this post, I lay out my two biggest recurring challenges and commit to the steps—like saving $100 a month—I’m taking right now to finally fix them. It’s time to stop being the…
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Time for me to fly

However something felt different leaving my appointment yesterday. I think I’m ready to move on without the safety net of counseling
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Shrugging off the winter blues and anxiety

I don’t write a whole lot on here about bouts with anxiety and depression, mostly because I have had my anxiety pretty well under control for a long time.
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My anxiety ruined my marriage

I’ve always known it. But I think just now was the first time that I ever strung those words together in that particular sequence creating that particular thought.
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The number 23

Today marks what would have been my 23rd wedding anniversary with X1. It is also the first anniversary date on which I can say that I have officially been separate/divorced longer than I was married.
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All the time in the world…

As fragile and unpredictable as life is, our world is also a place of infinite possibilities.
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Treat Yo’self

Kid 2 and I attended a Minor League baseball game: which is exactly what I wanted to do. I spent money that I should have spent on other, more productive, things; but yesterday was the perfect day for doing something exclusively for me.
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Full Stop

There is a vast difference between being depressed and experiencing depression; being anxious and suffering from anxiety.

