Category: Mental health
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Surviving A Worst Case Scenario Year
snowstorm In the winter when it snowed and snowed, I was lonely, but not all the time. I was lonely when we got 16 inches of snow and everyone stayed home for three days. I’ve never lived alone during a snowstorm before. I was so worried about living alone when (more…)
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How Do You Actually Rest?
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 friend (more…)
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A Mountain Hike and Messy Middle
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 quiet. Such is (more…)
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How to Set a Boundary Across Cultural Lines (Or Not)
This is part 3 of 3 in my series on burnout. Catch up here: Part 1: When I Finally Got Overwhelmed By My Humanitarian JobPart 2: I Can’t Remember A Time When I Wasn’t Tired Can I cut Alaa out of my life? Stop responding to his texts forever? “Yes!” (more…)
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I Can’t Remember A Time When I Wasn’t Tired
This is part 2 of 3 in my series on burning out from humanitarian work. Read Part 1 here: When I Finally Got Overwhelmed By My Humanitarian Job A week or so after I got back to Amman, when I felt I could no longer ignore him, I gritted my (more…)
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