A Writer's Journey
Between toothache, dental appointments, a sick cat, and nothing happening on the house selling front, I’ve been in the dumps lately. The kind where even tiny setbacks feel like a disaster, I’m struggling through my current story while feeling I’m too dense to write a shopping list, and needing a glass or two of red wine at night to unwind.
This week, things are shifting.
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One of the things that attracted me to the SlimPod was the constant reassurance that this is not a diet. That it’s meant to be a way to change my relationship with food and help me lose that diet mindset.
By the end of the first month, I’d put on two pounds and then lost five, which I was quietly impressed with. Then my body decided to put the SlimPod to the test the way it had put my diet to the test. Not with a migraine this time but with an infected tooth.
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Four of my top five strengths are strategic thinking ones – Context, Strategic, Input, Intellection – which explains why for as long as I can remember my mind has never been quiet. I come up with ideas like other people turn on the tap. I spot rafts of possible solutions to everybody else’s problems. And I always have far too many things on the go at once.
The results are—unsurprisingly—exhaustion, unfinished thoughts, unfinished projects, and the continued discontent with the things I produce, because the perfectionist lurking in the back of my mind wants everything just so.
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Every person deserves to have a safe space.
Not now and then or in the middle of a crisis, but whenever it’s needed.
And those safe spaces must be truly safe. Not to the outside observer, but to the people who shelter there.
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President Trump’s tariffs have caused upheaval and debate everywhere. From US citizens in Ohio, who think it’s a useful measure that will help them back to prosperity, to governments preparing retaliation, to stock markets freaking out, to penguins wondering how they ended up in the middle of all this.
Commentators who disagree with Trump’s measures rile about bullying and a disproportionate response to globalism and integration. Those in favour speak of protecting the US and restoring its industrial capacity.
And neither is entirely wrong.
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