Jiggedy jig. So, I’m home again. I’ve been home since Thursday afternoon, and it’s been strange. When I went into hospital it was autumn; when I came out, it was suddenly winter. I’m writing this sitting in front of the fireplace, because elsewhere in the house, it’s a biting 9° Celsius. I’m wearing a flannelette [...]
I’ve had the experience, on occasion, of shopping with somebody indecisive. This happens very rarely because I rather hate shopping and I especially hate shopping with one or more people in tow. I do this thing where I walk into a store, gaze around for approximately four seconds, know that I don’t want anything whatsoever [...]
My doctor suggested last week that I make this my mantra. Will it make a difference to my life to believe that I am, indeed, good enough? I feel as though I’m flatlining, all the little kinks of energy that define a life worth living gradually levelling out to a painful nothingness. Is that even [...]
Did you know that how and what you think can actually change your brain chemistry? Most of us know that brain chemistry affects the way that we think, but the relationship is far more complex and intertwined than that: brain chemistry affects thought processes; thought processes affect brain chemistry. ‘Neuroplasticity’ is the mind’s ability to [...]
*original beach photograph by Maci Renee
Reading Augusten Burroughs’s This is How is a bit like being punched in the face. But it’s also like the punch in the face that you desperately need. The various short-and-long chapters in This is How dispense advice in caustic little bursts that could be construed as either obnoxious or offensive — if they’d been [...]