Instagram Stories
Every night I post a message to my Instagram Story. I also have people that stalk me around the internet and actively try to ruin my life. They’ll never win though because good things don’t happen to terrible people.
IG Post: Finding Our Confidence
Finding our confidence is incredibly important to feeling good about ourselves.
People Pleasing and Parenthood
This is a great post for those of us that have been and are currently people-pleasers. I wanted to look at this from the POV as a parent and how we can engage in people-pleasing behaviors with our children.
Instagram Stories 2/26 and 2/27: Discipline, Indulgence and Boundaries
When we use discipline to bring balance to our lives it leads to more happiness than indulging all of our desires.
Instagram Stories 2/25-2/26, Meteorological is Hard to Say and a Gluten Free Apple Crisp
This post of my Instagram Stories from 2/25/23 and 2/26/23 discusses my appreciation for poker as a learning tool, creating recipes, gluten free apple crisp and finally my attempt at saying the word meteorological, which was a massive fail.
Instagram Story: A Peek Into My Mind
Every night I post a photo of the Washougal River with a collection of my thoughts from the day. I try to correlate these thoughts to some kind of mental health pursuit.
2023: You Are Ready To Soar
So here we are, the first week of a brand new year. It’s refreshing, a new year, giving each of us, including you, an opportunity to give yourself a new starting point. We hear a lot about goal setting and vision boards and resolutions and then inevitably somebody like me comes along and tells you that you don’t need all of those things blah blah blah.
Five Things I’d Never Tell a Person Trying to Lose Weight
Losing weight, weight loss, dieting, and any other eleventy million words, acronyms, or cliches we use to describe dropping pounds can bring anxiety to many of us that have battled weight challenges in our life. Until you’ve looked in the mirror and felt rage, anger, shame, disgust, embarrassment, and sadness at the reflection staring back at you, then you’re probably not qualified to give us an opinion we likely don’t want anyways.
Education: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
I strongly believe education is the cornerstone of success for both people and the society they live in. This is why I believe it would be far more prudent to invest in the future of education by funding community colleges and trade schools for a minimum of two years for each student that earns a diploma or GED. There should also be a civic service requirement for each student that takes advantage of the program so the return on investment begins immediately while building civic pride in the student.
Failure: Our Common Bond
Failure is something I have an intimate relationship with; hell I’d say the thing I’m most successful at is failure. That isn’t necessarily a good thing, because, like many relationships, my love of failure isn’t always healthy. How is your relationship with failure?
Camas: Facing the Homelessness Problem
Homelessness is an issue that can affect every single one of us in some form or fashion in 2022. Homelessness has become a very hot-button issue for governments and citizens alike as both seek to find some sort of solution to a problem that continues to fester in society.
America’s Microcosm: The County Fair
If we pull our noses out of the air, phones and zeitgeist, we see the incredible creativity, hard work, ingenuity, intelligence, cohesion (shoutout to the fair staff that pulls any fair off) of the great people that are fair participants, all so we, the fair attendees, can enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Adult Bullies
As adults though, bullying can be substantially different than dealing with a kid on the playground taunting us or making fun of our shoes. Adult bullying can have profound impacts on our mental health, especially if it’s from a loved one or someone we believed we could trust. I think many of us look at bullying like I described above but obviously it’s much, much different as an adult because our interactions with others are quite a bit different than as a kid. How bullying manifests itself in adulthood can look many different ways, especially with the advent of social media and cyberbullying.