My job as executive producer of a live daily show featuring social-emotional learning, an unnerving safety plan that was on a loop in my mind everyday, similar to that of the videos shown before taking flight on an aircraft in case there's a crash will soon be over.
During one of our drunken chats a few years ago, we came up with a big goal of starting a blog or a podcast. It was an alcohol fueled idea.
A lot can be achieved early in the morning. So I have heard.
My anxiety during my son's swim lesson had nothing to do with water.
When I got my first smart phone around 2008ish, I referred to it as My Beloved. I'm over it. Kind of. We're just friends now. Almost.
How I manage my phone dependency.
Going alcohol free for a while brought 3 benefits that were effective almost immediately.
It's 2021. Let's try to quit booze and Instagram. Why not?
I studied the part of my cultural identity map that is tricky; the part that brings up all the feelings.
Words and thoughts surrounding anti-racism and public education.
Once again, decluttering scammed me into giving up my precious time.
I would have had huge regrets if I chose not to go.
If it meant verbally putting something out there in the air, even if it isn't exactly words; perhaps a long and heavy sigh, or the sound that you make when you pretend (or really do) pull your hair out before the children enter the room, this is what sometimes needed to be done.
I have been burying all of it in my STUFF (in a very orderly way, of course).
It's drafty and chilly. There are holes in some parts of the drywall. Despite the hiss of a probably almost expired water heater along with some street traffic and light neighborhood noise, it's generally quiet.
It's time to share my current top 3 life-draining habits that are REALLY hard to break.
Photos of alcoholic beverages that are intentionally placed next to symbols of parenthood make me cringe. Especially my own. I have taken a lot of them.
It is still very real. We are still living in a pandemic.
Life is NOT all good. It’s been a LONG time since I could genuinely use the phrase, “It’s okay” and actually really mean it
Until Jenn 