Category: Authenticity
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Disclaimer: I don’t like AI, so obviously I don’t take a neutral stance here. I know that AI can be a useful tool in certain circumstances. For very important things, like health, it’s crucial to get an actual doctor’s opinion. The same holds true for topics regarding recovery. AI makes a lot of mistakes. A…
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I haven’t published anything for the last several days. I’ve still been writing but those writings have just been for me. I needed the break. I want to publish because I want to, not because I feel like I have to. I don’t write as a job, and sometimes the things I’m working through need…
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I spent all of yesterday sick and in quite a bit of pain. I’m feeling better today, not completely back to normal, but good enough to run some errands and go grocery shopping with my wife. We stopped by my favorite little indoor produce stand too. I only needed some jalapenos this time so I…
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I use the word chose deliberately because that’s what happened. I saw a headline that sent me down a rabbit hole. Clickbait works. As I kept on reading I could feel myself getting angrier and angrier. Before long at all I had started writing a post fueled completely by that anger and my sense of…
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Last night I ate a lot of cherry tomatoes with my evening meal. Usually there wouldn’t be anything special about that but these came from our own garden. There’s just something special about eating food you’ve grown yourself. Food you’ve watered, weeded around, patiently waited for, and finally get to enjoy. After living in apartments…
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There’s one part of every day that I dread. Bedtime. As the sun starts setting I can already feel it creeping in. The closer bedtime gets the more the anxiety builds. Ever since I got off alcohol and especially since getting off benzos, that feeling has gotten insanely intense. Then come the nightmares. I wake…
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What’s your favorite ways to deal with stress? Would you be willing to share them? What about those times when you’re way more stressed out than you realize until your body starts letting you know with pain? I think that’s exactly what happened to me. I wrote recently about how the multifocal PVCs that first…
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Life has taught me to be very careful about absolutist thinking. There are definitely certain things that are clearly wrong like cruelty, abuse, and intentionally hurting innocent people. Those aren’t subjects that require much debate. But when it comes to people, life is usually more complicated than just dividing everybody into “good” and “bad.” I’ve…
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I write a lot about how happy I am with my life these days, and I am happy. Very happy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t still struggle because I do. The last few days have been hard. We had to spend a lot of money replacing the entire roof on our home. Considering we…