What Does it Mean to be Your Authentic Self? Being authentic isn’t difficult but does take practice (as with everything in life). To be authentic, you must have a keen awareness of who you indeed are, including what you care about, believe in, and stand for. An authentic person, for example, says and does things…
Type 1 Bipolar is my diagnosis but I try not to let the label get to me too much. I definitely think about it on a daily basis, but I’m not embarrassed or ashamed of it anymore like I was back when I was first diagnosed in 2006. Sure, the self stigma is still there, but…
Your browser does not support the audio element. Hi there. This is Abs, and I am going to sit with you for a bit while we get this anxiety under control. If it helps, you can close your eyes and hear my voice, or, if you’d prefer, you can read along on your screen. Before…
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself—a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have. I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately. It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get…
Millions are returning to the physical workplace after extended periods of time working from home. While the world is still dealing with the virus and its knock on effects,many people are now focused on what it will be like to get back to the workplace. There are many issues to be considered, that encompass work,…
From my journal, 9/2/2021 I don’t know when a switch flipped in my brain that suddenly made everything seem so pointless. It scares me to think my kids could somehow experience this someday. I keep wondering what my future looks like after Brave and just a month ago I was excited about it, but lately…
After Friday’s meeting about This Is My Brave, I felt like a kid during the December count-down to Christmas. Only I don’t want to count down, I just want to get to the big celebration already. I haven’t stopped thinking about the outcome of the meeting all weekend. I’m giddy with the anticipation of what could…
I first learned of the shooting tragedy on Friday morning as I was scrolling through my Facebook feed as a break from work before I left the house to go pick up the kids at Mom’s Morning Out and drop my son off at preschool for the afternoon. You see, I work for a news…
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