Approaching the New Year With Care
Boy, what a year. I distinctly remember this day, exactly one year ago, when I told my partner “Thank goodness 2022 is over! Here’s to a better year in 2023!” At the time, things were looking up – the wildest, scariest year of wildfires, pandemics, and world-wide chaos seemed to be winding down. I thought, […]
Looking Towards the New Year With Hope and Self Love
The new year is always a great opportunity to take stock. What made this year special? Challenging? Hopeful? What has emerged as important priorities for the coming year? Where do you hope to be, a year from now? While we are all eager to see what comes with a new year, there have also been […]
Making New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep
It’s that time again — time to make resolutions and, most likely, to give up on them by February! If you’re hoping this year will be different, we’ve compiled a list of tricks to make resolutions stick: Most of these tricks are inspired by the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, […]
Reflecting at the End of a Decade
Wait, it’s 2020!? Where did this decade go?? Social media is bursting with posts comparing life now to ten years ago. For spoonies, those decade comparisons can hit especially hard. Perhaps ten years ago you were healthy, unaware of any medical mishaps you might be facing soon. Maybe you hadn’t yet had to give up […]