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My life as a morning person
I’m the first one up and out of bed this morning, but not because I jumped out of bed and got right up. I have a 3 hour lounging limit and I woke up at an hour that starts with 5, which is a real bummer on a Saturday. But sometimes I can sleep in…
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Daily Prompt 9/27/24
The trait I value most about myself is my charisma, or my rizz as my gen z/a kids hate me saying. It’s taken me my entire adult life to even realize and acknowledge that I have charisma. I have thought for a long time that I am introvert and need to be alone and away…
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Daily Prompt 9/26/24
I would shrug and move on, as long as I still had all the people that are important to me. I’d be bummed to lose pictures of me as a little kid and things that belonged to family members no longer with us, but I would be ok. But I do not want to lose…
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Dear Dad, take 3? 4? 5000?
I have spent so much time in therapy working through some really complex feelings about my father. I have spent even more time processing the various interactions we’ve had throughout my adult life and just how toxic he is towards me. It’s been a long, painful road. Lately I keep seeing social media crap about…
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Daily Prompt 9/25/24
There are so many times where I’ve felt out of place. In fact, I think I have felt out of place more than I have felt included. But for this prompt, I’ll talk about my first day of 7th grade as a new kid at a middle school where 5 elementary schools funnel together and…
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Daily Prompt 9/23/24
Money doesn’t matter to me. I set myself and my family up for success with my military career so now I don’t have to work. So I could technically do whatever I want if I had the money to invest and enough interest to hold my attention. But now my brain is starting to spin…
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Daily Prompt 9/22/24
I would love to learn woodworking. I feel like I must’ve done this in a past life. I feel an urge to cut and sand and create with wood. But I also feel like my need to move through erratically and quickly would leave me with a space full of partially completed, lopsided projects. Maybe…
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Disappointment
One of the greatest joys in life for me is concerts. I love music and live music is the absolute best part of music. And that live music doesn’t even need to be concerts. I enjoy any kind of live music, even people singing at festivals, first Fridays, etc. There is not much in life…
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Growth
I’ve been in therapy continuously for almost 4 years straight. It will be 4 years in January. I did some therapy online and with a military therapist on base prior to starting for real in January 2021. For me, I wanted to change things once I was retired because I could. I no longer had…
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Becoming Zander FOR REAL
I have been gone for a long time. I was stuck in my own head and in my own healing. I have been doing therapy every other week this entire time and really taking a hard look at my life, who is in it, and what changes I need to make to be my best…