Archive for the 'personal well-being' Category

A Realization

Posted by Brendan on April 29th, 2008 filed in meta, personal well-being

Yesterday I paid my weekly visit to my shrink, and for the first time ever, she started ranting instead of me. “Have you seen the price of flour?” she began, and then launched into the exact diatribe I’d delivered the week before about oil and food prices.
The conversation drifted to the “stimulus” we’re getting this [...]

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Day Three

Posted by Brendan on November 28th, 2007 filed in depression, personal well-being

Sam’s been gone for three days now.
Sunday was a bear, as I wrote.
Monday was pretty freakin’ awful. I didn’t go to my therapy session, wasn’t sure if one was scheduled actually, but I really didn’t see the need for it. After all, therapy is supposed to be helping me deal with unresolved issues, [...]

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Discretion

Posted by Brendan on August 17th, 2007 filed in blogs, meta, personal well-being

I know I mentioned earlier this week that one of the reasons I haven’t blogged much was because I’ve been working on a long therapy-related piece. That’s true: I’m still working on it. And it will never be published.
There’s definitely some stuff in there that needs to be worked out, and I will [...]

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Framing

Posted by Brendan on August 7th, 2007 filed in life, meta, parenting, personal well-being

I’ve been slowly reading Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of An Elephant”, a book about political framing. I haven’t finished the book, and probably won’t, and so I am unprepared to discuss whether the book makes valid arguments about politics or… well, about arguing. What I’ve read so far is interesting. Discussing the idea [...]

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Carpal or Something

Posted by Brendan on July 16th, 2007 filed in meta, personal well-being

Last night for no apparent reason, my right forearm seized up as if with a muscle spasm. It hurts to rotate my forearm in either direction, so much so that even after taking a prescription 600-milligram ibuprofen, I still woke up every time I rolled over last night. I took another 600 milligrams [...]

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Opportunities and Lessons

Posted by Brendan on June 20th, 2007 filed in criticism, meta, parenting, personal well-being

Last week, I didn’t get as much of a chance to write about Sam-related issues as I would have liked: between practicing for a wedding and three days worth of bluegrass gigs, I only finished about half of what I wanted to write about, my interactions with Sam’s maternal grandparents and how those interactions probably [...]

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Interactions

Posted by Brendan on June 14th, 2007 filed in depression, meta, parenting, personal well-being

I wrote quite a bit last week about my emotional preparations with regard to Sam’s arrivals and departures from my life.
One of the first ways I prepare for Sam’s visit and arrival is to find out who will be driving Melissa. If it’s her boyfriend, it’s always easier: I don’t have any baggage [...]

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Emotional Prep 3.

Posted by Brendan on June 11th, 2007 filed in meta, personal well-being

Sometimes I can tell when Sam’s departure is going to be a bad one well in advance. That was the case during the visit right before his most recent one: after about four days, my dominant emotion was dread. Dreading looking at his odious grandparents, the thieves. Dreading the long and exhausting ride [...]

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Epiphany

Posted by Brendan on June 7th, 2007 filed in meta, personal well-being

As I was riding my bike home from work yesterday, I was meditating a bit on the whole “emotional preparation” theme I been tasked with, and I had a bit of an epiphany.
I can’t allow the fact that my ex ruined my life to ruin my life.
I have a lot of good stuff going on: [...]

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Emotional Preparation

Posted by Brendan on June 6th, 2007 filed in meta, personal well-being

I think I mentioned a few weeks back that I was going to start getting some counseling to deal with the emotional rollercoaster I’ve been on since my ex broke up with me, robbing me of a full-time relationship with my son. It feels odd to express what happened in such stark terms but [...]

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