A little over three years ago I wrote a blog post entitled I’m Okay With People Being Wrong About Me. I’m still okay with people being wrong about me, but, like all of us, I sometimes revert to old behaviors and defend myself unnecessarily. Sometimes it takes me a minute to realize it, but I’m […]
Self Care
This Week In Self-Care and Weight Loss, Episode 2: Filling The Tank
I don’t really hang out with many people in person any more. Covid and my divorce have made it especially easy to avoid humans because dealing with humans can be hard and covid made it easy to not deal with people in person and hide. When I’m tired I don’t want to talk to anyone. […]
This Week In Self-Care and Weight Loss, Episode 1: The Power of A Mindset Shift
In January I joined a program at the Y called Lose to Win. It’s a 12 week weight loss/healthy living program, and there are some competitive aspects to it as well. You can “win” several different categories including total percentage of weight lost, most group fitness classes attended, most cardio minutes, most spin classes, most […]
My Awesome New Bedroom (Makeover on a Budget)
I had Covid back in January and while I was isolating in my room I started redecorating in my head, and then as soon as I felt up to it I started redecorating in real life. When we first moved into the house last February, my room started out like this: It’s big and has […]
Keep Start Stop
Every day in E-School members receive an email from me. Sometimes the emails are related to the topic we are focusing on that month (it’s Financial February right now) and other times we are doing more reflection/introspection or something more lighthearted (like on Fun Fridays). Most Sunday emails focus on introspection, and I encourage members […]
Building My Oasis
When I moved into my house it was kind of like speed moving, and we just kind of threw stuff in my room without thinking about anything and it’s been right where we put it ever since. I didn’t have much bedroom furniture – I had a small table, blanket chest, and chest of drawers […]