The drill sergeant still looms large
Before I knew I had pneumonia, I had recorded a podcast--even though it was a little hard to breathe. The irony is that the podcast is about how my drill sergeant tells me I have to be productive at all costs.
I’m just doing my therapy homework. Not trying to brag or anything.
You know how I wrote my words for this year were courage and creativity? Well last week in therapy she told me I had to add a 3rd C: confidence. Three C's seems pretty ambitious for New Year words, but then I am a pretty ambitious person. Plus that means I have to write a whole new blog post to make the word "official."
I know why Hamilton was non-stop
No more silence. Speak the truth with me. Act like you're running out of time and do something. Whatever it is you can summon the courage to do. And like Hamilton said, I'll see you on the other side.
Born to perform
I still have a full-time private practice. I am turning Normal in Training into a podcast, and at has 380 posts. When the podcast is finished, I'm going to do a kickoff conference series called Normal in Training: Teaching Adults how to Rest and Play to publicize it. I just started the blog Neurospicy and Flying, which will eventually be turned into a book, since there's so little good material out there on neurodivergence.
Our deepest fear
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Courage and Creativity
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Overshooting your mark
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