Wednesday
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Nothing Like the Hump Day to Turn the Week Around
Do I really truly believe it, or am I just temporarily relieving my anxiety about the slow approaching self imposed doom due to inertia? I did shower and wash my hair. Can I call the bare minimum an accomplishment? I guess so, is it’s more than what I manage on most days. A sad accomplishment, Continue reading
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Better Sleep Intentions
I am now on the second book in this process of fixing myself. The first one was about organizing my living space (Dana K White: How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind), and while the work on that is still very much only starting, another issue all of a sudden felt more urgent. Continue reading
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My Body Needs Sleep
If you read my post from yesterday, you know I’m going through a period of serious sleep disruption. I don’t sleep, I intermittently nap. It will take some focus to change this, so this topic has temporarily taken over priority over everything else. Conveniently, today’s topic is body, so I’m very much on theme. My Continue reading
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Salud!
Good health is something we do regularly express as a wish for other people, that in many languages the root of the word health is used in words for “hello”, “goodbye”, after sneezing, or when raising glasses (filled with alcohol usually, ironically antithetical to health). However, we rarely express this same wish for ourselves when Continue reading
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Wednesday: Body
Surprise, surprise, I’ve been neglecting my body. You may have picked up on a common theme by now, I am this week taking stock of my lifestyle woes across these 7 concepts. I’ve been able to neglect it because of a “lucky” genetic predisposition: I look fine even if I don’t take care of myself. Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 