Tag: anxiety

  • 3 Methods of Emotional Preservation

    It seems to me I’ve never stopped feeling anything. Healing seems to only ever take two forms. We can either distance ourselves from the emotion, which feels like temporary hiding, or find something to drown it out. This poses a unique problem as I retract from the New Age touchy-feely man I was to focus…

  • 201 Photographs of Children

    Somewhere over the course of me growing up I learned to stop being annoyed by the little buggers and started deeply appreciating children for the refreshing bundels of joyous ignorance that they are. Perhaps it’s my biological clock that’s got me kickin for kids. Perhaps it was my developing social and emotional maturity that’s helped…

  • Vulnerability and Connection

    In my continuing efforts and struggle to make sense of my very own existence, I invariably return to remarkably rudimentary, yet paramount questions. Why am I here? What must I do? And, how may I actualize these concepts, and increase the ratio of pleasure to pain in my life? My wonder, pursuit and search for…

  • Z-12 for Sleep

    I have never been able to establish regular sleeping habits. In April, I attempted 30 Days of Waking Up at 5 AM, and failed miserably. I claim to be a night owl, but the numbers in my records tend to show that I’m just nuts. In summary, I’ve been sleeping every other night, or day,…

  • 30 Days of Waking Up at 5 AM – Day 3

    4/23/2011 SA 5:07 AM Pacific Time 30 Days of 5 AM – Day 3 Last night, I was supposed to go downtown with a friend but I laid down to take a nap at 6:45 PM and never woke to my 8:15 PM alarm. As a result, I never set my 5:00 AM alarm. It’s…

  • Doing What Feels Right

    Doing What Feels Right: Preface I’ve decided to take a novel new approach to living. This decision will effect the decisions I make every day that ultimately affect the course of my life. This decision will effect every thought that passes through my head in every waking minute. Let’s call this novel new approach to…