Category: time anxiety
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Learning to say no.
I know I’m not the only person that has a hard time saying “no” when people ask for help. It’s fine when you’re only asked occasionally, or the responsibilities are spread out. But when they all pile together at once, it’s an overload. Just some of the responsibilities I’ve taken on recently: And that’s not…
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Summer 2024
Here we are again. Summer. I now have two high schoolers. How did that happen? I swear they were in diapers just yesterday. Anyway, along with finishing their middle school years way too fast, they now have a billion activities that need me as a chauffeur, but not to be in attendance. Which on the…
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Wellness Wednesday (03/06/2024)
It’s been awhile since I last did a Wellness Wednesday. I thought it would be a good idea to check in on myself. So how am I *right now*? I’m okay, actually. I have a lot going on and I could easily cross over into overwhelmed (and probably will later today), but at the moment…
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Complicated
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in anxiety, depression, family, journaling, marriage, parenting, routine, shame, theatre, time anxietyIt seems that trying to do everything is getting more and more difficult. The older my kids get, the more activities they get involved in. And those activities are more demanding and starting to overlap. As I’ve mentioned, my kids have been cast in a show and rehearsals are complicating getting them fed. Well, now…
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Wellness Wednesday – 02-08-2023
Yesterday I had a hysteroscopy. It was scheduled a few weeks ago because I’d had heavy bleeding for 15 days and a sonogram showed the possibility of a polyp. I was very nervous, so I wrote while I waited. This is what I wrote: I’m sitting outside the doctors office in my car. I got…