but sometimes that’s all you can do. A friend, or a stranger, or… it doesn’t matter who. A fellow human being who needs to share something of what they’re going through, something of their struggles, their pain – they can’t always articulate it. Pain doesn’t always fit neatly into coherent sentences. I’ve been told I’m [...]
Category Archives: Sharing stuff I’ve learned
Learning to keep praise at arm’s length
It is so very tempting to accept other people’s praise and absorb it as though their opinion matters, but then what happens when they don’t like what you’re doing, when they don’t approve, when they throw brickbats rather than bouquets? I can’t afford to take other people’s praise too seriously, I can’t afford to let it shape my own opinion of [...]
Useful weapons
I wrote earlier about my battle with SAD, about choosing to listen to the voice of experience as opposed to the voice of doom and gloom – depression tells me I can’t do anything, depression calls me to give up, but the voice of experience reminds me that I’ve been through this before and I’ve come [...]
Learning not to listen to the lies
once again waking up feeling tired, feeling like I need time out, I can’t do anything today, I need to just curl up on the sofa with the Saturday paper and – – - but experience tells me that the blues have to be fought against, not succumbed to. and even better: experience tells me [...]
