Faith isn’t about the days when things are going well. Faith isn’t about the days when the launch brings in thousands, when the spouse comes home and gives you a kiss and asks you how your day has been and actually listens to your answer, when everyone is healthy, when you have a fully funded [...]
The Ebb of Absent.
Yep, you haven’t imagined it. I kind of disappeared. Not from everywhere. You can still find me posting pictures of shadows and coffee and Gracie in a tree on Instagram, and occasionally commenting in the INFJ Facebook group. But as far as blogging, podcasting, videos, emails, twitter … I’ve been gone. Well. Not exactly gone. [...]
EveryDay12: A Week Good for Nothing Happening
Such a difference that a week makes. I’m not sure what the difference was – vitamins or surrender or letting go or an opportunity or making progress – but things have shifted for me. Here’s how.
feeling happy and other weird things
It’s weird to feel kind of overall happy. Not that my life is perfect. Not that I’ve solved the current set of problems. Or that I suddenly know what I’m doing. Or that much outwardly has changed. My happy is about letting go. Letting go of preconceived notions of who I defined myself to be. [...]
EveryDay11: Tracking Things and What I Learned about Learning
Tons of integration and new thoughts came to me this week. What am I committing to do/track in this everyday project? Things I will do for the rest of my life, or just temporary daily tasks as part of a short-term project? I learned the five modes (or points of view?) that people can be [...]
A Day in My Life – Leap Day 2012
[I mostly posted this to make myself feel better, because I continuously beat myself up for not getting enough done. Perhaps if I read how much I actually do, it will shut that self-critical voice up for a while.] February 29, 2012 3:52 am – Wake up (no alarm) and look over at my bedside [...]
EveryDay10: Breakdowns and Letting Go
This week was hard. Really hard. Multiple breakdowns, lots of stress, lots of crying and freaking out. But I made some important decisions and realized something I was missing. Here it is.
EveryDay9: The Truth about Disneyland
(Yes, this is being posted a week late, but I did record it on time.) I spent a week in Disneyland. A dream place as a mom & for my daughter – a nightmare for me as an HSP and introvert. Here’s what happened, and here’s what worked.
Spec Work, Breathing, and Crying Over a Vacuum Cleaner.
Crumbled up on my gross-dirty-because-not-yet-vacuumed carpet, with the disassembled-refurbished-but-new-to-me Dyson vacuum cleaner spread out before me, it happened. I wept. I curled up in a ball on the floor and sobbed about a freaking vacuum cleaner. Yesterday at 1:32 PM a machine that refused to reassemble was the one-more-thing that broke me. Yes, I’ve been [...]
EveryDay8: Disneyland, Pizza Salad, and Being Bold Behind the Scenes.
Tomorrow my daughter and I are going to Disneyland. Yes, I am planning to keep on my routines, to keep me sane, to support my energy. But that’s not the most important thing that will happen this week. Also here – sometimes being Bold is what goes on behind the scenes.
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.