My therapist told me to turn off my phone. “Three days, don’t use it unless absolutely necessary for three days,” she said toward the end of our weekly session. “See how you are feeling by Monday.” I had taken social media breaks before and found it abundantly helpful for my ever-present anxiety, but I always…
Tag: self care
Resolute
There's something shocking when realizing a decade is done. Of course, decades have come and gone outside of the calendar year. Turning thirty, that's three decades done, and that happened in 2016. But there's something more final with 2019 coming to a close. I'm trying to be less flippant about the end of the year…
Shifting Forward to Self Care
Moving is unfathomably hard, and I say this having moved plenty in my life. I don't hold the history of a military brat who has been all over the United States or the world, moving multiple times and seeing multiple places. No. I grew up in the same town and lived there for 21 years.…