Category: Mental health
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How Do You Actually Rest?
No really, please let me know. Listen to your body. It’s something we hear all the time. Do we do it? Really listen? I really listened yesterday, and it was harder than you’d think. You see, I really wanted to run 14 miles with my running club this morning. The run was led by a…
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A Mountain Hike and Messy Middle
Slowing down to observe life when plans change The late summer light is giving way to fall, like the slow turning of a dial. Everything is muted and yellow-gold. The light comes slanting gently into the kitchen at 5:00pm when I’m wrapping up my work day. There is a calm after storms, when all goes…
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How to Set a Boundary Across Cultural Lines (Or Not)
Can I cut Alaa out of my life? Stop responding to his texts forever? “Yes!” say Brene Brown and Nora McInerny and Emily McDowell and so many others who have put their stories of loss and learning and boundaries out into the world (and Instagram). “Yes!” say Julia Cameron and Laura van Dernoot Lipsky –…
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I Can’t Remember A Time When I Wasn’t Tired
And why I lied to my colleagues about the cause of my exhaustion. This is part 2 of 3 in my series on burning out from humanitarian work a few years ago. Read Part 1 here: When I Finally Got Overwhelmed By My Humanitarian Job A week or so after I got back to Amman,…
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When I Finally Got Overwhelmed By My Humanitarian Job
And How The Tallest Man On Earth Saved My Mornings. I quit my job because I was burnt out. I had long, tiring, stressful days. After work I couldn’t do or think about anything. Some days I numbed myself with beer or Gilmore Girls. Other days I lay on my bed and wrote down notes…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…