I always cry on my birthday. And I really don’t even know why. And that’s hard to admit as someone as introspective as I am. I like to know myself. And I really can’t put a finger on this one. But this year, while I probably will still cry [read as: already have] I am [...]
There’s a hierarchy to worrying. And if you don’t look the big ones in the eye, they are going to stalk you. The good news is we can defang that monster. Like vampires, these worries hate the light. So by illuminating the darkest possible possible outcome, we can actually feel a little freer. This might [...]
...or How I Discovered that Movement is My Medicine When I was in high school, I ran-walked the mile in the Presidential fitness test in just over fourteen minutes. I played on the tennis team where our conditioning drills amounted to a few suicides and a run around the backstops of the three softball fields [...]
When anxiety or worry start pounding at your door, what do you do? I imagine myself standing with my palms pressed against the door, the weight of my entire body bracing against it as it buckles. It bulges like there’s a wolf on the other side attempting to blow it down. Amid that [...]
What’s it like to be in the thick of relationship anxiety? Not only is the honeymoon over but it’s like you’ve returned from that honeymoon to a landscape you don’t even recognize with a travel companion who looks like a stranger. You find yourself standing on Mars, reaching to touch the face of someone [...]
I used to be a horrible patient. When I fell running over knotted tree roots when I was about six years old and got a cluster of splinters in my elbow, my father had to chase me around the house just to take a tweezer to the affected area. When I had to go to [...]