It’s been a little over 4 months since I was diagnosed with a burnout and I’ve been recovering, slowly but steadily. Last month I was able to go back to work at 20% of my usual hours and we just upped that to 50% this week. It’s exhausting and taking a lot of me physically, […]
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Dare to Drive – Part VIII. Final lesson
My final driving lesson was on Monday and, as expected, I’m not road safe enough to get a permit without supervision. The instructor did say I made a lot of progress in the past few lessons, especially on the longer, calmer stretches of road I tend to do just fine. It’s still the busy town […]
Dare to Vegan – Part III. Week 2
I am now two weeks into my vegan experiment and feeling pretty good. As far as I know I didn’t eat anything non-vegan this past week. I’m starting to get pretty tired of constantly checking labels, though, so this week I’ve been kind of lazy and mostly just bought vegetables for a salad or soup. […]
Dare to Drive – Part IV. Walk before you can run
To great delight of my instructor, I’m actually learning more about myself in these driving lessons than anything else. Yesterday’s lesson didn’t go too well. This week in general has been tough on me and felt more like a step back in my recovery than a step forward but I think I finally figured out […]
Dare to Drive – Part III. One step forward, two steps back
Yesterday wasn’t the best day. It felt like I took a step or two backwards instead of forwards for the first time in a couple weeks. It started with me dropping the carton of spelt milk during breakfast and kind of didn’t stop until the internet cut out while I was talking to my friends […]