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Procrastination vs. Energy Budgeting: What’s the Difference?

September 12, 2022 September 12, 2022 / Mental Health, Psychology, Spoon Theory / 30 Comments

Energy budgeting and procrastination both involve putting tasks off until later, but one is healthy and the other isn’t. So what’s the difference? That’s what we’ll explore in this post. What is procrastination? I like Wikipedia‘s definition of procrastination – it is “the action of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that …

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Book Review: Everything You Need to Know About OCD

September 7, 2022 September 7, 2022 / Book Reviews, Books, Mental Illness, OCD / 17 Comments

Everything You Need to Know About OCD by Dr. Lynne M. Drummond with Laura J. Edwards is, as the title suggests, a comprehensive book covering OCD and its treatment. The lead author clearly has considerable clinical expertise working with clients with hard-to-treat OCD. The book looks at the processes involved in OCD, including distressing thoughts …

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Impostor Syndrome, Masking, Inadequacy, & Social Belonging

September 6, 2022 September 12, 2022 / Psychology / 33 Comments

Impostor syndrome, masking, social belonging, and inadequacy – that’s a lot of things crammed into one title! The comments on a post I did a while back (Do You Experience Impostor Syndrome?) got me wondering where the lines are between impostor syndrome and some of the things that it overlaps with. I don’t have answers, …

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Weekend Wrap-Up

September 3, 2022 September 3, 2022 / Mental Health / 43 Comments

Here’s what happened in my life over the past week: I dislike blogging right now, because I dislike pretty much everything. Colouring has been the most tolerable way of passing the time. The woman who was supposedly going to be my new GP called the mental health team to get them to harass me, even …

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Book Review: Stop Overthinking Your Relationship

August 31, 2022 August 10, 2022 / Book Reviews, Books, Communication, Relationships / 23 Comments

Stop Overthinking Your Relationship by Alicia Muñoz addresses ruminative thinking patterns that can damage relationships. The author describes rumination as a pattern of passive rather than active thinking, and she describes different kinds of rumination cycles such as blame or control-based rumination. These each relate to a shortage of “some important psychological nutrient.” There was …

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Is Your Comfort Zone Actually Comfortable?

August 29, 2022 August 29, 2022 / Psychology / 46 Comments

I got thinking about this recently while reading The Happiness Trap. In it, Russ Harris pointed out that the comfort zone often isn’t actually comfortable. It may involve a heck of a lot more misery than comfort. So why are we so pulled to hang out there? When the comfort zone is good If things …

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My Blogging Project: Creating a Child Theme

August 28, 2022 September 8, 2022 / Blogging, Wordpress / 33 Comments

Over the last couple of months I’ve been learning to code, partly just for the sake of something to learn, but also partly for the sake of developing a child theme for my blog. In this post, I’ll talk a bit about how the child theme creation process is going, but to start off, what …

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Book Review: The Panic Attack Relief Workbook

August 24, 2022 August 28, 2022 / Anxiety, Book Reviews, Books, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Therapy / 11 Comments

The Panic Attack Relief Workbook by Mayra Diaz lays out a seven-week plan for people to be able to better manage panic. It incorporates cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and exposure therapy. As the title indicates, it’s a workbook with exercises to fill out. The book begins with background information about …

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Book Review: Are We There Yet?

August 23, 2022 August 28, 2022 / Book Reviews, Books, Depression, Mental Health / 9 Comments

Are We There Yet? is a memoir by my lovely blogging friend Elizabeth Jones about her recovery from depression. I like how she conceptualizes recovery: “Recovery is a lifelong journey, not the destination. Recovery is the wrong word. There’s no going back to my former state. If I did, that wouldn’t be progress.” Liz’s journey …

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