No series about being unemployed can be taken seriously unless money is discussed. So here’s my money discussion. Every time I’ve been unemployed, I’ve read articles about how a person is supposed to take time to find themselves, give themselves a break, yada, yada, yada....
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Too Much Stuff – Part Two
(See Too Much Stuff – Part One here.) I’ve realized that the stuff itself, or getting rid of it, wasn’t what was weighing me down as much as the feeling that I didn’t have control over what I got to surround myself with. I was...
Continue reading...Surviving Unemployment – The Initial Downward Slide
I’ve made it through five days of unemployment and two of them were the usual weekend. I have created a giant list of things to do to keep me busy and have dedicated at least a couple of hours each day to connecting with people...
Continue reading...Surviving Unemployment – Step One
We may or may not be heading for a recession of some type. It certainly gets talked a lot about in the news media but I think that’s mostly because there are too many people in this world who want to work in the media...
Continue reading...Too Much Stuff – Part One
Too Much Stuff – Part One The last 3-5 months I’ve been really starting to focus on how much stuff I have around me and what portion of that I really truly like or use. This last month, that focus has started to turn into...
Continue reading...What Is Self-Care?
I’ve seen a few therapists in my time, starting with one visit back in college. Since then I’ve had a few longer term stints with less than stellar outcomes. Actually in once instance, I was getting somewhere but my therapist was a grad student and...
Continue reading...The Black Buoy
About 2 ½ years ago I was just starting what has turned into a long-term therapy journey. I had gone to therapy previously and had found that while talking was helpful, I never really got anywhere. I attribute that to two possibilities, the first being...
Continue reading...Relationships Are…
Relationships are: hard, complicated, interesting, rewarding, comforting, supportive, destructive and probably about 10 other adjectives in addition to those. While talk of relationships may first bring to mind romantic ones, I think this list of adjectives applies to all relationships: spouses, friends, parents, children, family,...
Continue reading...If You Haven’t Got Your Health
Prince Humperdinck: “Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I’m swamped.“ Count Rugen: “Get some rest. If you haven’t...
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