Week 14: Insomnia rears its ugly head

I haven’t written much this week. Truth be told, I haven’t done much of anything. Insomnia reared its ugly head again and thwarted all the plans I had carefully laid. I spent most nights struggling to sleep and in the morning, here came sleep which is so frustrating during the workweek. Today being an off…

Note to self: be patient with yourself today

It’s sad when it’s the first minute of the first hour of the first day of the work week and you are already tired.. As soon as my alarm went off this morning, I started to feel sleepy. I’m dragging today. I’m going to try and intentionally be patient with myself, tune in into my…

Quite candidly

Compared to yesterday, today is starkly different. Much cooler, grayer, gloomier, quiter. Where the sun shone brightly yesterday, today there is nothing but gray clouds in the sky. Looks like it might rain. It’s the perfect morning for breakfast in bed whilst watching a favorite TV show. So that’s precisely what I’m doing. Having breakfast…

A crumb of hope

It’s funny how we forget one basic rule of life: The only constant is change. That whatever we are going through: sadness, loss, happiness, joy, whatever, it is bound to change. That is a fact of life. This is especially hard to remember during sad or low times, times of misfortune and so on. Lately,…

Educating my brain

I listened to a fascinating TED talk recently. As I understood it, the gist of the program was how our brain biologically does not differentiate between actual events and our memories of those events. So when we rehash a traumatic event, it’s as though we were reliving that experience all over again. The brain sends…

Daily Prompt: Continue

Continue. Despite delays, setbacks, miscalculations, missteps, mistakes, stops, false starts..continue. Continue Through heartache, grief, sadness, tears, loss, disappointment..continue Continue Through joy, love, laughter, smiles, happiness, hope, sunshine..continue Always continue. Continue through it all. Then continue. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/continue/