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My happiness project officially ended a couple of weeks ago. Shall I announce, now, that I am happy happy happy? Well, I am. Sometimes. In January of 2010, I started working through Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read . . . → Read More: Happy Happy Joy Joy  Leave a comment  Posted on April 12th, 2012 in Divorce, Happiness, Self Care, Single Parenting  how to be happy, self care, self improvement, surviving divorce Do you ever get the feeling that you are exactly where you’re supposed to be? I was lucky enough to experience that twice this past week. The first time was when we got our new cat. The second time was when I walked into the Shambhala Center on Wednesday night. They have open meditation from . . . → Read More: Sit Still Leave a comment Posted on November 13th, 2011 in Spiritual, Writing Austin Shambhala Center, how to meditate, self care, showing up I have never been so happy to put a year behind me. Really. Never. And I’ve had some pretty astoundingly bad years. Ironically, I was much more depressed in 2009 than in 2010. In fact, a year ago today, I was reading through my mamaTRUE posts for 2009 and realizing that I had become progressively . . . → Read More: Living with Myself 6 comments Posted on December 31st, 2010 in Divorce, Emotional Self Care, Intellectual Self Care, Mental Health, Physical Self Care, Self Care, Social/Relational Self Care, Spiritual Divorce, happiness, parenting yourself, self care I turned forty yesterday morning at 10:20 a.m. At the time, my feet were being readied for blue nail polish. I have a knack for picking colors with problematic names. Yesterday’s was Happy Anniversary. Okay, I’m divorced. But it was the anniversary of my birth, so I went for it. Went for it aptly describes . . . → Read More: I Am Glad I Was Born 4 comments Posted on December 23rd, 2010 in Divorce, Emotional Self Care, Holidays, Self Care, Social/Relational Self Care birthday celebrations, self care, turning forty My big plan for the weekend was to rest. Then I spent the first half of today trying to rest, which is (I think) the opposite of resting. First, I had to figure out whether I should take the cat-piss down comforter to the dry cleaners or if I could wash it at home. Then . . . → Read More: Rest in Peace Leave a comment Posted on November 20th, 2010 in Divorce, Emotional Self Care, Self Care Divorce, how to relax, recovery, self care My divorce was finalized this morning. Here’s what I did for myself: I told Mike last week that I couldn’t get divorced on Friday. I didn’t want to spend the weekend of Cavanaugh’s birthday grieving the divorce. Maybe I’d feel relieved, or tired, or I’d be hysterical. I didn’t know. I didn’t want to risk . . . → Read More: Condolences & Congratulations 9 comments Posted on November 15th, 2010 in Emotional Self Care, Physical Self Care, Self Care, Social/Relational Self Care Divorce, life, personal, self care One of the keys to self-care is balance. Balancing self-care between physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and relational/social helps to ensure that our efforts to take care of ourselves don’t turn into escapism or overindulgence. That being said, I totally over-indulged in social/relational self-care the last week or so. I was having a hard time and . . . → Read More: 7 Social Self Care Tips 5 comments Posted on October 11th, 2010 in Self Care, Social/Relational Self Care get social, self care Lose weight. Exercise. Eat better. Well, sure, those are great ways to take care of yourself physically, but when you’re barely taking care of yourself at all because, say, you’re a parent to a young child or an older child with school and homework and music class and soccer, when are you going to fit . . . → Read More: 5 Easy Ways to Take Care of Your Body 2 comments Posted on October 8th, 2010 in Parenting, Physical Self Care, Self Care Health, Parenting, self care Do you ever get to the end of the day and have no idea what you did, or ate, or wore? Where were you? Who did you talk to? What happened to all those hours? Frequently at bedtime, Cavanaugh and I play “Let’s Talk About the Day.” We either talk about what we did that . . . → Read More: Seeking Balance One comment Posted on October 5th, 2010 in Activities, Divorce, Parenting, Self Care Divorce, divorce recovery class, Parenting, self care “You’re looking so much better,” is a strange kind of compliment, but one that I happily took today. It came from a man I’ve been seeing in meetings I started attending in February, twelve days before I agreed to a divorce. I definitely wasn’t looking so hot back then, but the comment today was not . . . → Read More: Dump the Frump 6 comments Posted on October 1st, 2010 in Divorce, Parenting, Physical Self Care, Self Care Divorce, self care, self esteem |
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