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Your Exhaustion Is Not The Enemy

July 28, 2017

Your exhaustion is not the enemy. Being tired is not a failure on your part. Fatigue, in spite of the fact that your “to-do” list got longer rather than shorter today, is not proof of your insufficiency. It may sound a little crazy, but exhaustion can be a really good thing. … More Your Exhaustion Is Not The Enemy

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Mis-using “Lazy”

June 1, 2017

Once upon a time there was a smug graduate student in psychology who decided to rid himself of the word “lazy”. Not by refraining from being lazy mind you, just by getting rid of the word. If it was 1985 and we still were using paper dictionaries, I would have cut that page out. At … More Mis-using “Lazy”

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Are you to blame for your illness?

May 23, 2017

An unintended side effect of the rise of preventative medicine, is that we now view ourselves as being in control of our health. Which is at best a half-truth. … More Are you to blame for your illness?

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Not So Fast Mr. Fix-it!

November 22, 2016

Last week I paid money to be locked in a dark room with my wife and two other friends while strangers watched us on video displays as we tried to find a way to get ourselves out. This is what we do for fun in 2016. For those you unfamiliar with “Escape rooms” as a … More Not So Fast Mr. Fix-it!

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You Don’t Have to Eat a Troll to be Happy

November 13, 2016

Alright. So I took one for the team and went to see the Trolls movie with my 6 year-old. I was expecting nauseating unredeemable slush, but instead I learned this: You don’t have to eat a troll to be happy. Or, in everyday language: happiness is not something you acquire by consuming, rather we learn … More You Don’t Have to Eat a Troll to be Happy

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Practices of Gratitude – The Complaints Department

August 5, 2016

Don’t force your heart to be thankful, just invite it to be by re-examining the assumptions that you deserve all the ridiculous good fortune in your world. … More Practices of Gratitude – The Complaints Department

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Beauty Underwater

July 20, 2016

When we view ourselves and others through a different set of eyes; such as compassion or empathy, entirely new aspects of human beauty are set before us. … More Beauty Underwater

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