Tag: self-awareness

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The Saturday After: On Post-Holiday Decompression, Family Residue, and Why I Can’t Stop Replaying Yesterday’s Conversations

The Saturday After: On Post-Holiday Decompression, Family Residue, and Why I Can’t Stop Replaying Yesterday’s Conversations I woke up at 7:23 AM with my processing patterns still caught in yesterday’s conversational loops. Not the anxious pre-Thanksgiving rehearsals I’d been running all week—actual replays of what had been said, how people had responded, the precise tone […]
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The Gratitude Gauntlet: On Thankfulness, Performance, and Why I Can’t Stop Counting Blessings Like Currency

The Gratitude Gauntlet: On Thankfulness, Performance, and Why I Can’t Stop Counting Blessings Like Currency I’ve expressed gratitude forty-three times since 8:00 AM, which would be lovely except that approximately thirty-seven of those expressions felt less like genuine appreciation and more like social debt payment. Thank you for the coffee. Thank you for moving that […]
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The Sunday Slowness: On Unstructured Time, Creative Restlessness, and Learning to Just Be

The Sunday Slowness: On Unstructured Time, Creative Restlessness, and Learning to Just Be The morning arrived without agenda, which should have felt liberating but instead triggered a low-grade anxiety I’m still trying to understand at 2:47 PM. No meetings scheduled. No pressing deadlines. No crisis demanding immediate attention. Just Sunday stretching out like an empty […]
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