Category Archives: Mindfulness

Am I healing?

Can it be? Am I finally healing from the trauma of this relationship? I don’t think about him every day anymore.  I don’t feel sad when I wake up. I haven’t cried in a couple of months. I don’t fantasize about just walking into the sea and disappearing.  I don’t wonder what I could’ve done to change the ending of this marriage and the implosion of my life as I knew it. As much as I thought that I would never recover from this, there is somehow […]

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Anger has saved me in the past

Why can’t I use it now? Almost every time I’ve made a huge change in my life, some amount of anger has been involved in pushing me to the final step.  Pissed off my parents as a teenager? Got thrown out. Pissed off at job? Find a new one. Pissed off in a relationship? Time to get out.  Angry at something that happened or was said? Change the environment or the narrative. Something is different now, though.  Anger doesn’t fuel my big decisions anymore.  I’m much more […]

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