My Sweet Dumb Brain

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A new-fashioned form of holiday haunting

Next year, take it week by week

This is what contentment looks like

Finding your way through the holidays

You can’t teach hope

Go gently

Four thousand wild and precious weeks

When happy memories turn sad

Big feelings, small thoughts

A slow and quiet blaze of brilliance

How lucky we are

Love with nowhere to go

Thread: Your cup by the sink

We rarely do anything alone

It all started with a text message

Go with the flow

Thread: The distraction of work

I want to remember

It finally happened

Rethinking summer

Pay attention to the signs

What happens when we pause

We knew it was coming

You can try something different

Let’s take this slow 🐌

Pardon my elastic mood

A few good things

Feel what you need to

Am I selling out—or selling myself short?

All dried up

Something has to come out of this

I’ve been using Facebook to perform my grief

10 things I like about me

‘And isn’t that dancing?’

The time we have left

Find your self-care squad

What does success look like?

If I were a toddler

What lightness feels like

The truths that set us free

We’ve all changed

Two years of transformation

One thing you can do is be kind to you

We’re in the messy middle

Teeny, tiny moments of joy

Forget the finish line

Auto reply: Taking a mental health day

For your sweet dumb brain: New year, same old me

What if we did less?

Make plans with open palms

A gentler approach to goal-making

A cure for bad days

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