How an Entrepreneur Lives, Works & Tries to Play Post-Trauma
My therapist told me it is good for me to not avoid doing things that trigger anxiety for me, because my brain gets rewarded for avoiding and not avoiding will get subsequently much harder with each time I avoid. This is not true for everyone, and is true or me only after a lot of…
I’ve been hiding at home for the better part of 5 years. I finished two master’s degrees following my car wreck, in programs that were at a major university and required you to be present for all classes, and I didn’t miss a class. I also worked retail during that time, so I talked to…
Everyone who has said yoga is a good practice for people who experience PTSD has been correct, in my experience. It was a long, rough road to get started, and I know so much more now than I did when I first started hearing that. Research said do yoga, my therapist suggested I do yoga,…
Not that things have generally gone that well for me the last few years, but they are now, and I’m generally pretty excited. Hard work is paying off, and I’m…not feeling well. And sleeping a lot. It’s confounding and annoying. I spent 7 hours yesterday on a map piece for a work document, and I…
Don’t make the good days less because they aren’t bad. Don’t make good less significant because they’re easier. Don’t make the good days a problem that they aren’t. Don’t make the good days more than you deserve. You deserve good days. It’s a lie that you don’t. Don’t make the good days carry meaning they…
I really hate change. Even positive change. My brain views it as a threat to safety, and change for me can look like an explosive emotional reaction to something that may have before barely registered as a mild annoyance or even somewhat interesting and exciting. One of the many, many reasons I practice yoga. It…
I do a lot of measuring and data collection and analysis at work, and with my work. I dig into tax reports, financials, budgets, attendance, points of origin, square footage, density and a whole lot of things that look like lots and lots of math. It is, and I can understand that MATH looks hard…
