Lexapro: A GoGo (sprint version)

This is a writing sprint. Please excuse typos and grammatical errors. Formatted version here. IT started almost a week ago. I had taken my Lexapro after a couple of years and got it down to 10 mg. Then for several months, I had it to 5. Last week, 0 mg. The first couple of days, I didn’t really feel withdrawals […]

Tinnitus and the Meditating Man

This is a writing sprint. Please excuse typos and grammatical errors. Like many people, the high pitched ringing happened from time to time growing up. Unlike most thought, around the time I was 22 the ringing nver stopped. TO ive with Tinnitus is to hear the constant, loud tone within your head. It’s as if someone is blowing a whistle, […]

Is Emotion a Person, Place, or Thing?

This is a writing sprint. Please excuse typos and grammatical errors. Great miondfulness practices yesterda centered on welcoming emotions. What I was feeling at the time was joy..perhaps contentment may be better. In my office, I sit near the window. My favorite time of day to meditate is when the sun nears its ascension to high noon. It frames itself […]

On the Edge

Originally published 10/9/2020. See new comments after original post. This is a writing sprint. Please excuse spelling and grammatical errors. On the verge, precipice…whatever seems good. i thought about this early this morning as I was considering what i may write about today. in doing so, i reaklized how much i am enjoying these spriunt exercises, and think I am […]

I Found My Voice When I Stopped Talking

While meditating this morning, I began thinking about the benefits of regular midfulness exercises since I began them several months ago. Various senraios swirled through my head, all of them having some relation to how I used to react in scenarios and how I still sometimes do react but now can recognize those. I began to consider these changes down […]

Forget About It

At this very moment, in consideration of why I’m writing, I think it’s because I really just felt a need to have someone to talk to.

Vulnerability is Your Security

I was searching for a quote to use in a business post and came upon one for Brene Brown. The keyword I searched with was vulnerability. Whern we consider the word, I would think many of us automatically get our brains into an assessment mode as if to say “hey, that workd means we have an open spot to be […]

5 Minute Mind – What’s in a Day?

This is a writing sprint. Please excuse spelling and grammatical errors. I awoke to the realization of Monday….but happy about it. THinking about what to write, I beang wondering about how days of the week can have there pre-determined feeling. THat is to say, the pre-determintation that we assign to the day. It seems sometimes that so powerful is this […]

5 Minute Mind – The Sound of Anxiety

This is a writing sprint. Please excuse spelling and grammatical errors. For the past several months, I have been keeping some type of noise in the background. Living alone during distancing is not all bliss. For most of this time, I’ve used the TV as that background noise. The sound of people talking, etc. filling some sort of pereived need. […]

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